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Until last year when Bakelite Corp. was added to the Union Carbide & Carbon empire, Dr. Baekeland used to visit his Manhattan office frequently. Now he is "fully retired" but far from inactive. A hale old man with a courtly old-world manner, he has never had time for politics or social affairs, but his talk betrays an encyclopedic knowledge of world events and history. He loves the sea and sailing, winters at the place in Cocoanut Grove, Fla. which he bought from the late William Jennings Bryan. He dives for sponges from his unpretentious yacht...
Herbert A. Waterman, of San Francisco, S. B. University of California '40, Hale Fund scholarship; Richard L., Hirshberg, of Cleveland, A. B. Oberlin College '40, Rutherford B. Hayes scholarship; David B. Carlson, of Rahway, N. J., A. B. Brown '40, Reuben B. Hutchcraft scholarship; Austin D. Goldman, of Bronx, N. Y., B. S. S. College of the City of New York '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; Garfield H. Horny '40, of Long Beach, Calif., Kirkpatrick scholarship...
...over three-fourths as big as Sears, had a record gross of $474,900,000, a record net of $27,000,000. To help Montgomery Ward in this famous comeback, Sewell Avery hired top merchandising talent from other jobs : Walter Hoving from R. H. Macy, Frank M. Folsom from Hale Bros. in California, Raymond H. Fogler from W. T. Grant, many another. At Montgomery Ward, they were known as Avery Men. Now they are anything...
Dynasty. Sweden's 81-year-old King Gustaf, whose tennis-playing year after year so amazed Europe, is no longer as hale as he once was. The problems of the Russo-Finnish war and the growing threat to his country's independence have aged him. This year, for the first time in many a year, things looked so bad at home that he was unable to take his winter vacation on the Riviera. Last week he and the Crown Prince attended meetings of the Council of Ministers, which met nearly every day to discuss the growing threat...
...Latter-Day Saints at Independence, Mo., chose Founder Smith's son Joseph as their president. When he died, he was in turn succeeded by his son, Frederick Madison Smith. The Reorganized Mormons claim that Young's attribution of polygamy to Joseph Smith was a base libel. Emma Hale, say they, was the prophet's first and only wife, even though the Dictionary of American Biography credits him with...