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Gerli Touch. One of the crosses borne by the Manhattan firm of Edward B Smith & Co. in the 1920s was Belding Heminway Co. The first half of this corporation the Smith firm bought from the Belding family, silk spinners since the Civil War. The stock was sold to the public at $39.50 per share...
...Italy in 1905, later went to Japan where he dealt in silk for his own account from 1919 to 1921. In 1922 he joined E. Gerli & Co. Although the firm is" primarily a commission house it makes rayon in Italy, and the Gerli family recently assumed control of Belding Heminway, one of the biggest U. S. silk manufacturers. Paolino Gerli is short, very dark, very suave, speaks with a slight accent. He was one of the founders of National Raw Silk Exchange in 1928, and its first president. Silk is not his only interest. He was listed in the roster...
William Dean Howells was the first realist. Quite different from the trenchant, sensual realism of Heminway or D. H. Lawrence. For his was, as Emerson has suggested, the harvest of the quiet eye. His novels were dull with the dull ache of life, or they held the mild amusement which enters the life of everyman. Things seem to stagnate, as in "The Chance Acquaintance" or "The Silver Wedding Journey," or they advance slowly forward with the inevitability of passing years...
...game to decide the inter-fraternity basketball championship will be played next Wednesday on the court of the Heminway Gymnasium, when the winner of the Alpha League, Sigma Alpha Mu, will play the Beta league champion...
Died. Milo Merrick Belding, 66, one-time (1912-25) president, and son of one of the founders of Belding Bros. & Co., largest silk thread manufacturer and distributor in the U. S. before it was merged in 1925 with Heminway Silk Co.; of heart disease after an attack of bronchitis; in Manhattan...