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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venerable town of Bath, 107 miles from London. Bath's principal claims to fame are its Roman remains, its Georgian house-fronts, and its spring water. Gouty Britishers have drunk and dunked themselves in Bath's water since the time of the Roman Empire. Not so well known as Bath's baths, but no less remarkable, is Bath's Pump Room Orchestra, a small 18-man group, which is today the oldest established orchestra in the British Empire...
...years a celebrity sculptor, bushy-whiskered Jo Davidson is known for his studies of presidents, generals, kings and Gertrude Stein. Of late "Headhunter" Davidson's social types have changed. Dedicated last autumn in Claremore, Okla. was his memorial statue of the late homespun Humorist Will Rogers. Exhibited in Manhattan last November were his portrait busts, made under fire in Spain, of the leaders of the People's Army. Last week when chunky Sculptor Davidson stepped ashore in Manhattan, glowering amiably, he brought with him from Paris a seven-foot, two-ton bronze statue of Walt Whitman, a People...
...Corp., he became a Republic director. When in 1932 a change in Koppers management sent John Brookes back to Washington to practice corporation law, he remained a trusted adviser of Republic's present boss, Tom Girdler. In Washington (where he was born in 1888) John Brookes is best known as a partygoer and a golfer who plays with professionals...
...most famed modern sociologists is Robert Staughton Lynd, Princeton '14. Dr. Lynd is best known for the monumental studies he and his eminent wife made of the town of Muncie, Ind. and described in Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). Since he wrote Middletown, Dr. Lynd has taught sociology at Columbia University and brooded on the fact that mankind, busily using the knowledge of natural scientists to make dangerous machines, remains in different to the knowledge of social scientists. Looking upon a chaotic world, Professor Lynd decided that it was a great tragedy that "men build their cultures...
...prides of Hartford, Conn. is Hartford Electric Light Co., nationally known as a model utility. It has no truck with holding companies, has only common stock (few bonds), has constantly slashed its rates. Head of this white sheep of the utility industry has long been genial old Samuel Ferguson, who four years ago moved up to chairman, turned over the presidency to handsome, Danish-born Viggo E. Bird. Last week, to Hartford's openmouthed horror, Viggo Bird turned out to be an embezzler...