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...personal backers. Its preeminence as a research and teaching school, the high-grade of its staff and the prestige of its trustees makes this possible. Twenty years ago there was a Throop College of Technology, a secondary polytechnic school, at Pasadena. Arthur Henry Fleming, wealthy Canadian-born Los Angeles lumberman, was president of its trustees. He talked Throop up among his rich Los Angeles friends. Let us make a great institution out here in Southern California, he argued in effect. Let us get the best men in the world as teachers. Let us let them prosecute research in pure science...
...Denver. About 10 p.m., Cellhouse No. 4 caught fire, heightening the glare in the courtyard. The convicts in Cellhouse No. 3 still held ten hostages. Father Patrick O'Neil, the burly prison priest, cried: "I can stand this no longer!" He started across the open yard with a lumberman's coat over his clericals, bearing not peace and absolution but Death-a 50 Ib. box of dynamite. Rifles and machine guns on the prison wall and in the warden's darkened house kept up a blistering barrage into the cellhouse windows as the priest went...
...Modern Museum plans to build its own building. Pledged for generous donations are many patrons who are waiting to see "if the thing is a success." Willing to take a chance, the committee of seven has already given the impetus-money. They are: Chairman Anson Conger Goodyear, Buffalo lumberman, onetime president of Buffalo's staid Albright Art Gallery, now an enthusiastic patron of modern art. Treasurer: Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., patron, collector. Secretary: Frank Crowninshield, smart-art arbiter, editor of Conde Nast's Vanity Fair...
First presumption was that lightning had struck the plane, as it struck Major John Wood's plane at Needles, killing him. Relatives prayed for the passengers: Mrs. Corina A. Raymond, wife of George B. Raymond, T. A. T. clerk at Glendale, Cal.; Amasa B. McGaffey, rich Albuquerque lumberman; Harris Livermore, Boston shipping man; Mark M. Campbell, Cincinnati paper salesmanager; William Henry Beers of Manhattan, editor of Golf Illustrated. The crew included Pilot Jesse B. Stowe, Co-Pilot Edwin F. A. Dietel, Courier C. F. Canfield...
Sued for Divorce. James Stanley Joyce, Chicago lumberman, divorced (1921) third husband of Peggy Hopkins Joyce; by Mrs. Nellie M. Joyce. Alleged: cruelty...