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...neighbors, was decorated with a thousand gadgets for making electricity do the work of men or women. With these Mr. Packard puttered; he gave to the town of Warren $100,000 to build a library and, with his brother, 150 acres of land to build a park & playground. The largest of all his numerous donations was one of $1,000,000 to Lehigh University, alma mater, with which to construct and equip laboratories. Sixteen months ago illness drove James Packard to the ho pital. He stayed there sixteen months, in the same room. Then he died...
Last week, Governor Clement Calhoun Young of California cried: "Save the beaches!" In a newspaper article he declared that oil interests were menacing the "spectacular charm," "the permanent scenic and spiritual enrichment," of the littoral playground of Californians and their visitors. Let oil-drilling be remitted, asked Governor Young, until means could be found to prevent the defacement and pollution of scenery whose value is "unmeasurably greater than the value of all the oil. . . . " Governor Young's article appeared in the Los Angeles Examiner, owned by Oil man William Randolph Hearst...
...unofficial soccer game yesterday afternoon on Brighton Playground, the Crimson Booters, an informal team of Harvard soccer players, defeated the Tufts College eleven, 5 to 0. George Paton Jr. '29 accounted for three of the goals and W. I. Stuart '29 scored the other...
...later years of his life were devoted to public service. He was for seven years a member of the Board of Selectmen of Brookline, and for 16 years, chairman of the Brookline Playground Commission. When Calvin Coolidge was governor of the state and was looking for a responsible man to reorganize the Civil Service, he selected Mr. Dana from a large number of possible incumbents for the position of chairman of the Commission...
Another left turn is made here and the winding road along the shore of Annsville Creek is followed to the Bear Mountain Bridge Highway. The completion of this fine highway together with the Bear Mountain Bridge, makes the vast outdoor playground of Bear Mountain Park, and the west shore of the Hudson River, more easily accessible to motorists...