Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter and only child of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, New York Evening Post, etc.) and wife of Edward W. Bok (onetime editor Ladies' Home Journal), last week permitted her name to come out of quiet domestic retirement in two announcements. To the Curtis Institute of Music which Mrs. Bok founded in Philadelphia three years ago with $500,000, she had given seven millions, bringing its endowment to $12,500,000. As President of the Institute, she had promoted the head of the piano department to the head...
...gratitude towards Mr. Insull when last autumn he acquired an inland tract on the city's grimy river bank and announced that here he would erect a $7,500,000 midwestern music Mecca (TIME, Nov. 29). And last week Chicagoans throbbed again, including even the strictly business-like Journal of Commerce & La Salle Street Journal, when Mr. Insull explained to the 2,500 long-suffering guarantors of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., of which he is president, how this music Mecca could avoid losing money...
Died. James Stetson Metcalfe, 68, for 31 years dramatic editor of Life, then of Judge, then of the Wall Street Journal; in Manhattan. In 1906 he was barred from 47 theatres because of his criticisms. He took the matter through the courts, but the Court of Appeals upheld the managers. Subsequently a bill was passed at Albany making it a misdemeanor to refuse to sell a theatre ticket...
Last week the American Medical Association's Council on Physical Therapy, which has been investigating the health values of these glass substitutes, published its report in the Association's Journal...
...Shawano, Wis., a correspondent of the Milwaukee Journal related an interview with one Alexander Besaw, 98, of Kenhena Indian Reservation...