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...worked for Henry Ford at $25 a week, later founded, with his brother Horace, the automobile business that was sold for $146,000,000 in 1925. When he died in 1922, John Dodge cut off his son John Duval Dodge with $150 a month for eloping with his highschool sweetheart at 20. To daughter Isabel he left more. Educated at Detroit's Liggett School, she went into the Social Register in 1921 when she married a Manhattan broker named George Sloane. They were separated in 1928, divorced...
TIME in Pennsylvania Sirs: My sympathy, also a proposition, to U. of Penn. student Pollack, who heads Letters column in the March 6 issue. When I graduated from highschool, my father offered to write in advance a check for four years college education, stating I could select the institution. I have since often thought, in declining, I was foolish. Perhaps I was wise-I might have chosen U. of Penn. Thanks to TIME I have endeavored to make up for this lack of college education by assiduously reading your educational weekly since its birth. Similar to "Philosopher...
...principal concern is that Peter will not be harmed-a matter which historically bothered Catherine II not at all. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. puts cruelty and craft in his performance of Peter III but lets his relish in clothes-swishing robes, shiny boots & swords-suggest a highschool senior in a commencement play. England's great Sir Gerald du Maurier plays a French valet. Catherine the Great, however, is Elizabeth Bergner's play. She is small (102 lb.), gentle, supple but not beautiful. In a blonde wig she is a young Catherine that might have been stamped on a bright...
...career to the social and educational institutions of the State, up from the red schoolhouse on the country hillside, through the public highschool, and on to a university founded by the colonists far back of the first days of the Republic. As a poor return for these benefits I stand ready in the present crisis to give to my fellow-citizens such services as they may ask of me provided nothing is asked beyond my abilities...
...played mostly in the country. Urchins borrow pitching gloves worn by their fathers through a career on the highschool nine, gather in a meadow, "measure a bat" for first up, compete through long summer mornings with protesting squeals and squawks that stir the catbirds to caustic music...