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Married. Katherine Wright, sister of Orville and the late Wilbur Wright (airplane inventors); to Henry J. Haskell, 52, associate editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; in Oberlin, Ohio. Married. Audrey Emery, "Diana of Cincinnati,"* daughter of the late John J. Emery; to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch of Russia; at Biarritz, France. By the marriage she becomes Princess Anna Ilyinska, cousin-germain to Queen Marie of Rumania. Married. Patricia Andrews Herron, niece of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who gave the bride away; to one Joseph Lancaster Brent; in Washington...
...OBERLIN'S THREE STAGES- Jacob Wassermann - Harcourt Brace ($2.50). In the first of the three stories of this book, a man softly enters the bedroom of a young girl about to be sent to an asylum. She is his ward. She is tubercular. She loves life and is bidding it farewell as she dresses herself a last time before her mirror. She is so preoccupied that she fails to notice her guardian's entrance, or a shooting riot that is in progress in the street. He sits in a shadow watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene...
...Oberlin College (Ohio...
...name of the new corporation is derived from those of Professor Elisha Gray and Enos M. Barton, who formed a partnership in 1869 to manufacture electrical equipment. Gray was a professor in Oberlin College, and his inventions composed the partnership's chief assets. Barton was a telegraph operator, who put $400 into the business by mortgaging his mother's house. In 1872 the original partnership of Gray & Barton reorganized as the Western Electric Manufacturing Co. In 1881 this was re-christened the Western Electric Co. In 1882 the concern began manufacturing telephone equipment for the Bell system...
...time when he started his career as a laborer, Mr. Williams was personnel director and vice-president of the Hydraulic Steel Company. Previous to that time he had been assistant to the president of Oberlin College and executive secretary of the Cleveland Welfare Federation. He has lectured on labor problems at the Business School and at the Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth...