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...Bowles with whom he had only a nodding acquaintance. But by 1929 Bowles knew Benton as ace assistant to Lord & Thomas Adman Albert Lasker in Chicago. Benton knew Bowles as a crack writer who was turning out some $4,000,000 worth of copy annually for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in Manhattan. Few months before the stock-market crash, Adman Benton, then 29, and Adman Bowles, then 28, went into the New York Secretary of State's office, came out as Benton & Bowles, Inc. Glib Partner Bowles began to write copy. Aggressive Partner Benton went out to sell...
...knowing who came first, the court threw out the case. Rudy Vallee waxed more famous, and Will Osborn, who sounded like him, bore in silence the onus of an imitator. But Will has left St. Andrews College (in his native Toronto) to become an orchestra leader of note. He worked incessantly on special trombone effects, relied less on his voice. A year ago dancers began to notice that Will Osborne had a sweet swing to his playing. Today Rudy Vallee is known chiefly for his radio variety hour will Osborne is known for his band...
...free from departmental restrictions and administrative duties, yet free to carry on investigation in any laboratory in the university; and second, the establishment of new Harvard national scholarships. But for the latter he has not had to await the coming of the new century. The historian and philosopher Henry Osborn Taylor, of the class of '78, approaching his eightieth year, has led the way by the endowment of the first...
Early donations to this fund "to increase the national usefulness of Harvard University" were a national scholarship given by Henry Osborn Taylor '74 and Mrs. Taylor, and a $500,000 gift by Lamont for the establishment of one of the new types of interdepartmental or "roving" professorships...
...This Man Is My Brother). Died. Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, 72, famed evangelist; of heart disease; in Chicago (see p. 46). Died. Walter Lowrie Fisher, 73, Chicago lawyer and traction expert, Secretary of the Interior under President Taft; of coronary thrombosis; in Hubbard Woods, Ill. Died. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 78, paleontologist, longtime (1908-33) president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History; suddenly, of a heart attack; at "Castle Rock," his Hudson River home near Garrison, N. Y. At home over the whole range of vertebrate evolution, he especially liked big animals, was a world authority...