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...eleven years Red Ryan was Kingston Penitentiary's model prisoner. Loudly and publicly he turned to the Catholic Church, became a favorite of kindly Chaplain W. T. Kingsley. An established custom at Kingston were Convict Ryan's burning addresses to young inmates on "Crime Doesn't Pay." Prison reform societies hailed him, Premier Richard Bedford Bennett went to see him, emerged deeply moved. Last July the Ministry of Justice awarded Red Ryan a "ticket-of-leave," a privileged form of parole in which a convict reports only occasionally to the authorities...
...year befell Penn Mutual's William Adger Law, who was accidentally shot and killed by his good friend Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., on a North Carolina hunting trip last winter (TIME, Feb. 6). Mr. Law's successor was William Harmstead Kingsley, who started in the company as an office boy in 1885 after graduation from Philadelphia's Girard College...
...service to $25 a week. Grumbled she: "I cannot carry on the traditions of the Grant family on a mere $25 a week. ... As Mae West might say, 'They done me wrong.' " In the Manhattan apartment of 30-year-old Pulitzer Prize Dramatist (Men in White) Sidney Kingsley, blonde Actress Doris Dudley (End of Summer), 18-year-old daughter of Radio Theatre Critic Bide Dudley, flounced into the bathroom, shot herself in the breast with a .22 rifle. A suicide note was found. Day after the shooting, which caused only a minor wound, the two renewed announcement...
Among the Cambridge patronesses are the Mesdames James B. Conant, Clarence H. Haring, Paul Killiam, Roger I. Lee, Roger B. Merriman, Kingsley Porter, and E. K. Rand...
...Abiah Herrick went to Girard in 1910 with the gospel of progressive education, liberalized the rich orphanage along its present lines. Nowadays, when Girard boys graduate, most have learned a trade, go straight to work. And some go to the top of their professions; e. g., President William H. Kingsley of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., President John Albert Brown of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., famed Landscape Architect John Nolen...