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With the stench of the law suit getting stronger, with Medical Dean David Linn Edsall getting angrier, with President Lowell getting sadder-the Harvard Corporation, hoping to quash the suit, last week pinned up this notice in the Medical School and School of Public Health: "No member of either of these schools should take out for his own profit, or make any profit on, a patent upon any invention or discovery that affects the health of individuals or the public. That if, to protect the public against misuse of the invention or discovery, it is necessary to control...
...occasion gave excuse for a tremendous social stir. A bustling series of luncheons, dinners, cocktail parties and balls was organized. Chief organizer was grey-haired but vivacious Mrs. Lucy Blair Linn, cousin of Col. McCormick, wife of a Chicago stockbroker. To facilitate conversation, she sent around Spanish-English dictionaries to be placed beside each guest sitting next to an Argentine. When fierce competition arose between hostesses as to who should entertain whom the night of the first game, Mrs. Linn placed the names of all eligible guests in one of her hats, had the competing hostesses draw them...
...course of a practice match, a ball driven out of bounds came close to hitting Mrs. Linn. Cried she: "If they think it would help polo's publicity, I'll let one of the ponies run over...
Century ago there were in the U. S. ten church members for every 75 persons. Now there are ten for every 25. (Total number of communicants: 50,037,245.) Dr. George Linn Kieffer, statistical secretary of the United Lutheran Church, declared in the Christian Herald: " the churches are losing ground, the reason and the remedy can be found in part in an analysis of the message they are proclaiming to the world. An age of doubt and question, of depression and lawlessness demands from the pulpits of the land a clear ringing statement?'We should fear and love...
Married. Cyrus McCormick III, vice president of International Harvester Co. of Chicago, divorced last month by Mrs. Dorothy Linn McCormick (TIME, Feb. 16); and Mrs. Florence Sittenham Davey, 38, Manhattan sculptress, pupil of Sculptor Alexander Archipenko, onetime wife of former Instructor Randall Davey of the Chicago Art Institute (Mr. McCormick is its vice president), sister-in-law of U. S. Ambassador to Peru Fred Morris Dearing; in Havana...