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...manner of its telling, File on Bolitho Blane gets under way slowly as Kettering's reports first establish that almost everybody on board the yacht had some good reason for wanting Blane killed. The cast of characters includes two rival financiers, a count, a bishop, a British philanthropist, a Japanese promoter, a secretary, two young ladies, and the evidence apparently involves them all impartially. The solution of the mystery-by a detective on shore from the same evidence that is made available to the reader-is sealed in the back of each volume...
Glad to get back to Cleveland to do some creative showmanship, "Linc" Dickey finished up his blueprints for a Great Lakes Exposition early last winter, laid them on the desk of Cleveland's No. 1 philanthropist, Dudley Stuart Blossom. Enthusiastic Mr. Blossom promptly agreed to bear all development costs up to Jan. 1. By the end of January contributions ranging from $25 to $50,000 had underwritten the Exposition for $1,100,000. Setting up a nonprofit corporation, General Manager Dickey, General Chairman Blossom and 125 trustees went into action...
Died. George Arthur Plimpton, 81. publisher (Ginn & Co.), philanthropist, scholar (The Education of Shakespeare), for 45 years the able, money-raising treasurer of Manhattan's Barnard College; of pneumonia; at Lewis Farm, Walpole, Mass...
...American Pioneer Line provided free passage for child and mother. Philanthropist Sir Charles Conibere of Melbourne put up the cash for incidental expenses on the 106-day round trip. Schoolchildren chipped in. The U. S. waived immigration restrictions. Surrounded by reporters, Baby Rodgers arrived in Manhattan, pronounced the U. S. "okey-dokey," was whisked off by the Y. W. C. A. to Philadelphia where, in the strict privacy of Dr. Jackson's operating room, the nail was withdrawn from his lung in seven minutes...
Last week when whooping cough was at its seasonal peak, Johns Hopkins University Medical School investigators let it be known that the late Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's only son-in-law had chosen the fight against that disease as his own first public philanthropy...