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More to the point, Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, had considerable contact in her childhood with the teachings of Swedenborg, while attending a New Church Sunday School. Her Science and Health is obviously the garbled result of her acquaintance with Swedenborg, and her utter lack of understanding of his theology...
...nearly got fired when he worked out in his head an answer to a problem which agreed with no one else's. When his answer proved right he rose rapidly to assistant chief engineer, chief engineer, secretary, vice president and general manager. Year ago he succeeded Founder William Edward Boeing as president. Married, he has no children, flies his own plane to hideaway lakes for fishing...
...dais not far from Her Majesty was the swart, striking young Emir Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and smoldering-eyed son of that kingdom's tall, ascetic founder and autocratic ruler, His Majesty King Ibn Saud. As usual, the Buckingham presentations were of no significance, but men who know the Near East saw a sign and portent of British prestige in Arabia's great new State as its Crown Prince took his respectful stand near the Queen-Empress...
There are no Fairbankses in Fairbanks, Morse today-only Morses. President Robert Hosmer Morse is the son of the founder of the Midwest division, which outstripped and later absorbed Vermont's old E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. Tall, heavy, hard-driving and a judge of good whiskey, President Morse started for college but dropped out of Hill School at the suggestion of his business-minded father, who set him to work as a molder's assistant in the Beloit foundry. During the War, President Morse was chief procurement officer for the U. S. Signal Corps, is still called "Colonel...
Died. Mrs. Rosalie Rayner Watson, 36, wife and collaborator of famed Child Psychologist John Broadus Watson, founder of Behaviorism and vice president of J. Walter Thompson Co.. Manhattan ad-firm; after brief illness; in Norwalk, Conn...