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...fade-out.'" A thoroughgoing philanthropist, he gave away some $75,000,000, probably retained only a small Kodak interest. Major gifts were: to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $19,500,000 (he was Technology's "Mysterious Mr. Smith"); to the University of Rochester, $35,000,000; to Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes, $4,362,000; to employes in the form of stock distributions, $6,000,000. His civic improvements in Rochester were the Rochester Dental Dispensary, Rochester Chamber of Commerce Building, Eastman School of Music, Eastman Theatre (now closed), Rochester Civic Orchestra. To Rome, London, Paris, Stockholm and Brussels he gave million...
...year-old Childe Hassam is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the holder of innumerable prizes beginning with a medal from the 1892 Paris Exposition. He may not be the foremost painter in the U. S., but he is certainly the foremost painter of East Hampton, L. I., where he has a fine summer house and a solarium in which he last year offered to wrestle or box with disrespectful commentators. His wealth, position and appearance well qualified Painter Hassam to be the first subject of a series of short one or two reel cinemas, made...
...famed of Philadelphia's recent Safety Directors was Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, who tried to dry up the city. In 1928 aggressive, door-smashing Lemuel B. Schofield was appointed following a grand jury investigation of Philadelphia scandals. Last week Mayor-elect Joseph Hampton Moore announced Director Schofield's successor-a man he pointedly hoped would find other things to do than "being a captain of police to lead raids or a fire chief to rush to fires." New appointee is Kern Dodge, 51, socialite, consulting engineer. Never a politician, Director Dodge...
Died. Cole Blease Bowers,* 21; in Hampton, S. C.; by his own hand (shooting) ; because his father would not let him open a package marked "Do not open until Christmas...
Philadelphia is as stanchly Republican as New York is Democratic. On the crest of the largest plurality (330,999) ever cast in the city's mayoralty elections, Joseph Hampton Moore rolled into the City Hall. No Philadelphia Mayor may be a candidate to succeed himself. There is no law against his trying for the office subsequently, but for 50 years no ex-Mayor had won a second term. Mayor Moore had served in 1920-23, had previ ously been a Congressman for 13 years...