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When he was 73 and she 23, the late great Tammany Chieftain Richard Croker married Kotaw Kaluntuchy (Bula Benton Edmondson), descendant of Chief Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. She had sung, lectured on Indians, ridden a horse at New York's Hippodrome. She studied enough law to defend her $5,000,000 legacy from her husband against the children of the first Mrs. Croker. She became one of the largest landed proprietors of West Palm Beach...
...Forest, longtime radio experimenter and inventor, newly-elected president of the Institute of Radio Engineers, exclaimed in his inaugural address...
Thoughtful national advertisers, long aware that radio advertising is powerful and comparatively cheap,* might well be moved by potent Radioman De Forest's warning, mend their ways. A father also of sound cinema, Inventor De Forest felt privileged to add : "In both studio recording and theatre reproducing a most deplorable result of engineering indigestion exists. The profession has bitten off more than it can chew, and the resultant bellyache must be endured by the theatre-going public...
...whom three have died, grew up in the West while Artist Brush was painting Indians. They learned to pose before they learned to read and received little formal schooling. His four girls are now married; one to a Cabot, one to a Coates, one to a Bowditch, one to Inventor Winslow Pierce...
More versatile than they was their father, the late James Steele MacKaye (1842-94), painter, actor, playwright, producer, lecturer on esthetic philosophy, inventor. His Hazel Kirke (1879) ran longer than any U. S. play until Frank Bacon's Lightnin' (1918). He organized the first U. S. school of expression, originated "harmonic gymnastics," first used over-head lighting in theatres, invented folding theatre chairs...