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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ladies who count it a fashionable triumph, indicative of cleverness, to succeed in smuggling personal purchases made abroad, with the sporting risk of paying a 100% fine if caught. One-quarter of fines imposed goes to informers who tip off Customs inspectors. No smart smuggler will tell her best friend, until afterwards. This, the summer season, with tourists jamming every liner, is the time when inspectors are busiest, ladies most cunning...
...medical centre. And to Mr. Baker the faculty turned. Picking him was shrewd, for the professor of surgery at Bellevue Hospital, one of the units of the proposed centre, has long been Dr. George David Stewart. And Dr. Stewart has almost as long been Mr. Baker's doctor and friend. Hence sentiment made the ready Baker hand more ready, and a little insistent. The $1,000,000 was, he stipulated, to be an endowment and the endowment must be called the George David Stewart Endowment. Dr. Stewart must be its administrator...
John D. Rockefeller began to heap up his philanthropies right after his friend and doctor, the late H. L. Biggar, had warned him to cease active business or die quickly. That was 30 years ago, about the time when Andrew Carnegie became aggressive with donations (TIME, June 10). The Carnegie donations became $350,000,000, nine-tenths of the Carnegie fortune. The Rockefeller donations are already $550,000,000, probably not one-half of the Rockefeller fortune. Carnegie philanthropies deal chiefly with education and science, Rockefeller philanthropies chiefly with medicine and education...
Died. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hambleton, 31, Lindbergh-friend, Baltimore banker and vice president of Pan American Airways, with J. Von der Heyden, sales director of Consolidated Instrument Co. of New York, and Mrs. Von der Heyden; at Wilmington, N. C., when their plane crashed on a week-end flight. Both men were expert flyers. Earlier last week Flyer Von der Heyden took New York Governor Roosevelt's wife on her first flight...
...quit making western pictures three years ago. Some people said he was writing his autobiography, others that quarrels with his wife had broken his heart. He lived on a ranch somewhere and was only seen in Los Angeles one afternoon when he went to the funeral of a cowboy friend of his. Last week he signed with Hal Roach to make an all-talking horse-and-pistol picture...