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Died. Mary Harriman Rumsey, 53, chairman of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, eldest daughter of the late Edward Henry Harriman; of injuries sustained six weeks ago when her horse fell on her during a hunt; in Washington. An intensely energetic organizer, she was a founder of such diverse...
Chicago's leading artist is Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 37, who likes to picture men whose skins are as wrinkled as a dirty handkerchief. His heavy baroque style brought him local fame when he applied it to a loutish, hunched figure called The Lineman. Other noteworthy Chicago artists: Malvin Albright...
On Oct. 31, 1926 Charles Vance Millar, Toronto attorney, died. He had accumulated a fortune at the bar, at racetracks and in breweries. A bachelor, he bequeathed $500,000 of his estate to the Toronto woman who bore the most children within the ten-year period following his death. Last...
Of the 67 Immortal Sons in Statuary Hall, 30 have been removed since October because, as Reader Whitmore states, their total weight made the floor unsafe. There is no Congressional resolution limiting the number of statues in Statuary Hall, but Congress did authorize the relocation of statues. Many a famous...
Born in small Neligh, Neb. to a hardbitten, union-hating coal operator father, Josephine Roche started early to have ideas of her own. At 12 she wanted to go down in a mine, was told it was too dangerous. "If it is dangerous for me," piped Josephine, "why isn'...