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Died. William Reid Williams, 64, onetime (1920-21) Assistant Secretary of War; in Richmond...
...place near the top of Society. When he died in 1910 he left an estate of $41.000,000 in New York Central, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, International Paper. Shredded Wheat, Tidewater Oil, Black Diamond Coal, Seaboard Air Line, et al. His daughter became the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. His son Ogden collected works of art, married Ruth Livingston, great-great-great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston whose statue New York put into the U. S. Capitol as one of its two most illustrious citizens...
Died. Harry Lafayette Reichenbach, 49, press agent; of lung disease; in Manhattan. Versatile, spectacular, he served governments, corporations, and such personages as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore. "September Morn" was his idea. He loosed a lion in a Broadway hotel to advertise the cinema Tarzan. He imported eight Turks and had them search Manhattan's Central Park for a missing Virgin of Stamboul. A member of the U. S. Diplomatic Corps for three years, he worked with Lord Northcliffe in England, d'Annunzio in Italy. Said he after...
...unfulfilled broadcasting contracts on hand. It had earned its first "small profit" last year on $20,000,000 gross business. It had leased 27 new studios in Manhattan's Radio City. A revocation of its licenses would ruin its business. Questioned by caustic Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, an intervener in the case, about the Delaware case, Mr. Aylesworth said: "I know very little about it. I wouldn't know a vacuum tube from an inner tube. I'm a broadcaster." Observed Representative Reid: "You're a slicker, too." Retorted Broadcaster Aylesworth: "Well, it's something to be called...
TIME of May 11, just arrived here and welcome as always, has this in reference to the death of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid...