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...Harvard tradition which passed last week was Beck Hall, oldtime privately owned dormitory, which was sold. Among its onetime inmates: Theodore Roosevelt, John Pierpont Morgan, John Jacob Astor, James Alexander Stillman. Perennial Cambridge springtime fiesta was the "Beck Hall Spread." In more recent years the building was cared for by a onetime barkeep, famed for his preparation of whiskey sours...
...people have ever studied a tornado, fewer still its nautical equivalent, a waterspout. First instinct of those who have seen this terrifying natural phenomenon, which links heaven and earth with a dark, serpentine Jacob's ladder, is to get out of its path...
...Long Island Sound last week. While she stood by during three races, George Ratsey looked over her sails, which he had built at his City Island lofts. (He also made the sails for the other defenders.) Fortunately for the Yankee, she rode quite a distance away from the Robert Jacob shipyard on City Island. Fire damaged that yard's pier. It destroyed about $200,000 worth of trophies, guns, silver, sails and equipment owned by Otto H. Kahn, William G. Vanderbilt, Walter P. Chrysler and others. Their vessels were absent. The fire also destroyed the winter home...
...last June to act partly as a Niagara-Hudson holding company, partly as an investment trust. It is dominated by the Schoellkopf family, with whom Mr. Carlisle is associated in Niagara-Hudson. Marine Union Investors was formed in January 1929 by the same group ? notably George Franklin Rand, Jacob F. Schoelkopf Jr. and Seymour H. Knox ? who later organized Marine Midland Corp., hundred-million-dollar group-banking unit (TIME, Sept. 30). It also was partly a Marine Midland holding company and partly an investment trust. Inasmuch as the bankers and the utility men were operating in the same...
...John Jacob Raskob, back from a trip to Europe, reputed to be the largest holder of Warner stock outside the company officers, was asked if he were going to have himself elected to the board of directors. Said he: "Neither myself nor my associates . . . have been approached . . . are not desirous of . . . assuming responsibility...