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...called into official existence by the city government: Alfred S. Austrian Augustus Stephen Peabody Francis X. Busch James D. Cunningham Charles Piez William Ruggles Dawes George McClelland Reynolds George 0. Fairweather John Fitzpatrick Carl Richter Harold Edwin Foreman J ulius Rosenwald Earl George Gubbins Herbert D. Simpson J. L. Jacobs James Simpson D. F. Kelly Albert Arnold Sprague Clayton Mark Silas Hardy Strawn Charles Edward Merriam A. W. Swayne Melvin Alvah Traylor Joseph Roberts Noel Frank F. Winans Victor A. Olander George Woodruff
There died last winter a mediocre musician named Messager, who was, nevertheless, Membre de l'Institut. In due time the Institut searched for another musician to immortalize in his place. They turned to old M. Vincent d'Indy, writer of symphonies of great fame, excellence, popularity. But old M. d'Indy would have none of it. Sternly he spoke: "I am 78 years old?it is really a little late to think of me." The next choice, Composer Paul Dukas, protested that the Institut was making fun of him. So, finally, the Institut turned to the man whom many regard...
John D. Rockefeller began to heap up his philanthropies right after his friend and doctor, the late H. L. Biggar, had warned him to cease active business or die quickly. That was 30 years ago, about the time when Andrew Carnegie became aggressive with donations (TIME, June 10). The Carnegie donations became $350,000,000, nine-tenths of the Carnegie fortune. The Rockefeller donations are already $550,000,000, probably not one-half of the Rockefeller fortune. Carnegie philanthropies deal chiefly with education and science, Rockefeller philanthropies chiefly with medicine and education...
Grover C. (amphibians) Loening, first man to get a degree for aeronautical research (M. A., Columbia), wished a thrill last week, strapped a parachute to his back, went up in a Stearman over Roosevelt Field, L. I., at 2,000 feet jumped, and landed grinning...
...stand in Manhattan. Each paid in $200. Next year, they opened four more stands, increased the capital stock. But thirsty people did not take kindly to street-corner orangeade. Business lagged. In 1915, Stockholder Dickinson, practically insolvent, transferred his share of stock for a debt cancellation to one Walter L. Titus, through Titus's brother. New-Stockholder Titus, little interested in the money-losing company, "wholly abandoned the enterprise," refused to contribute much-needed additional funds. Soon a new company, Burnee Corp., was formed-consisting of Stockholder Neely and Willard S. Burrows...