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...Olean, New York--St. Bonaventure 7, Mt. St. Mary...
Their director was Robert Lippert, a big, tense, jowly man who was once a boy soprano in the German Lutheran Church in Olean, N. Y. Robert Lippert well remembers when he was 13 and his father, the choirmaster, gave him a gold watch and said: "Son, you can't sing with us any longer." Though Son Lippert's voice changed, his interest in choral singing persisted. As he grew up, he organized choirs of his own, concentrated on the relationship of the voice to a boy's physical development. His conclusion was that voices do not necessarily...
...Last fortnight, the London Daily Herald claimed the world's biggest circulation (2,030,000). †The 16 Gannett papers: Rochester Times-Union, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Albany Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News, Utica Observer-Dispatch, Elmira Star-Gazette, Elmira Advertiser, Elmira Telegram, Newburgh News, Ithaca Journal-News, Olean Herald, Ogdensburg Journal, Beacon News. Malone Evening Telegram (all in New York State). Also Hartford (Conn.) Times, and Plainfield (N. J.) Courier-News...
...founded by John Warne ("Bet-a-Million") Gates & friends in 1902 - a longshot bet on a little $3,000,000 concern which had grown out of a wildcat gusher in the Spindletop pool. Ralph Holmes went to Texaco at its founding. Grandson of an oilman, he was raised in Olean, N. Y. near the Pennsylvania oil fields, quit school to go into refining. For Texaco he helped develop the famed Holmes-Manley gasoline cracking process, helped push its distribution into 51 foreign lands and into all 48 States (more than any U. S. oil company). Now 59, short, stocky, bulb...
...Light have become popular legal tender and his henchmen, Walter S. Wyman and Guy P. Gannett, are ruling powers. Mr. Wyman is Water Power. Mr. Gannett, a cousin of Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett of Rochester, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Hartford, Albany, Utica, Elmira, Newburgh-Beacon (N. Y.), Plainfield (N. J.), Ithaca, Olean (N.Y.), Ogdensburg (N. Y.), is Power of the Press. His monthly Comfort reaches 1,226,330 homes. His dailies in Portland (the Press-Herald and Express} and Waterville (the Sentinel} dominate. Working quietly as always, Mr. Insull intrenched himself early and deep. But his operations eventually awakened such...