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...choleric Brain Surgeon Walter Edward Dandy of Johns Hopkins, interned under choleric Brain Surgeon Harvey Williams Gushing of Harvard, rounded out his training in London (with Surgeon Sir Percy Sargent, Neurologists Gordon Morgan Holmes and Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson). A final polishing at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, which Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness helped to endow with Neurological Institute, and teaching practice at Columbia University-then Dr. Penfield was ripe...
Engaged, William Hale Harkness, cousin of Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness (Yale's famed Harkness Quadrangle), brother-in-law of Assistant Secretary of Navy for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls; and Elisabeth Grant, Manhattan socialite...
...live through the two decades (1910-30) spanned by the book, the least forgettable are: Mrs. Tregunter who lives on weak tea, lettuce leaves and hatred of the Jews; Rabbi Shulman who has the Talmud on the brain; Benny Edelman whose rescue of Tommie Wright from drowning induces Philanthropist Emmanuel to give a Magnolia Street party, which brings the Jews and gentiles together temporarily. But Mrs. Wright sees Benny naked after the rescue; their subsequent marriage cuts Benny off from his Jewish family for good...
...affair, Eastman personally making every decision of import. In 1925 he retired as president and general manager, became chairman of the board. Said he: "The remaining years are very precious to me and I am now doing what the movies call a 'fade-out.'" A thoroughgoing philanthropist, he gave away some $75,000,000, probably retained only a small Kodak interest. Major gifts were: to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $19,500,000 (he was Technology's "Mysterious Mr. Smith"); to the University of Rochester, $35,000,000; to Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes, $4,362,000; to employes in the form...
...programs mentioned above are, I suppose, subsidized. If no philanthropist is willing to subsidize "The March of Time,'' could we not subscribe to it, as we subscribe to the printed magazine? That is the point and purpose of this letter. Broadcasting supported by advertisers may be practical, but it is not successful. Would it not be possible to reserve one station with a national system for such programs as we might be able to enjoy, and let it be supported by a reasonable monthly or annual subscription from the respectable thousands of us who, having invested in more...