Word: founder
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Died. Dr. Henry W. Frauenthal, 63, founder of the Hospital for Joint Diseases (largest orthopedic hospital in the world); having fallen from a seventh floor window; in Manhattan. In 1911 he successfully grafted the tibia bone from a dead man's leg into a girl's leg. In 1912, he saw the Titanic sink...
Professor Kittredge's series of lectures on "The Appreciation of Shakespeare" brings to the Vagabond's mind the story of Thomas Dowse, the founder of the lectures...
...exclusively Harvard University tour has been planned by the International Student Hospitality Association for this coming summer. It is being carried out through the Open Road, Inc, which is headed by S. E. Rothchild '16, a Harvard graduate and the founder of the Liberal Club here. The aim of the organization is to meet the intellectual as well as practical needs, of the traveler. In past summers it has been found that American students have attempted to "do" Europe after the manner of the American sightseers. In order to remedy this condition, under which, the traveler wears himself...
Sued for Divorce. Herbert Claiborne Pell Jr., 43, Chairman New York State Democratic Committee, onetime (1919-21) Congressman from New York, son of the late Herbert Claiborne Pell Sr., founder of Tuxedo Park; by Mrs. Matilda Bigelow Pell; in Paris...
...Schlesinger on her Wyoming ranch. She, Eleanor, granddaughter of Tribune-founder Joseph Medill, married first one Count Gizycki. Her present husband was onetime general counsel of the U. S. Shipping Board and is now a member of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy, Manhattan corporation lawyers. She recently wrote a book, Glass Houses, about Washington Society and Senators ("Red Hot Togas," said critics...