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Death came last week to Europe's greatest trader and trafficker in Sleep-Davison Dalziel, 74, Baron Dalziel of Wooler. From Finland's icy mountains to Egypt's torrid sands, tired travelers snore peacefully, each night, in the sleeping cars of the great company of which he was president-La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens.† Moreover Baron Dalziel was, up to the moment of his death in London last week, chairman of the British Pullman Car Co.-pioneers of such luxury services as the Pullman-Golden Arrow route between London...
George Sisler, once the greatest first baseman in the American League, is now playing in the outfield for Washington...
...spectacular but artistically far more competent diva, Rosa Raisa. She, a lady with an equally imposing stage presence, and a far better voice, who refused this winter the leading role in the world premiere of Boito's long delayed Nerone, and who, at 34, is listed among the greatest dramatic sopranos in the world, last week left Manhattan on a boat bound for Italy. Ship news reporters watched her sail away, and whatever they may have observed, reported nothing. Three days later, when Mme. Raisa was far away and out of hearing, the A. P. sent out from Chicago...
Another result is that the way has been made for listing another and greater British security, the ?1,950,000,000 ($9,750,000,000) 5% British war loan. If that is listed it will be the greatest bond issue ever offered to U. S. investors, exceeding by $3,500,000,000 the Fourth Liberty 4¼% loan...
...Gifford, on the basis of a systematic and statistical analysis of the personnel of the Boll System, has shown that success among the college graduates employed, has come in greatest measure to the men with the best college records. The relation seems to be something more than a coincidence, wherefore, if Mr. Gifford's observations among the men in one company may be taken as representative of other cases, it seems to follow that scholastic attitude is in the majority of instances the precursor of success in business...