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Died, Thomas Alexander Boyd, 36, author (Through the Wheat, Mad Anthony Wayne, Lighthorse Harry Lee); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Ridgefield, Conn. He left two posthumous works, In Time of Peace (sequel to Through the Wheat) and Poor John Fitch, Inventor of the Steamboat...
...world's eyes were again on Geraldine Farrar. In Los Angeles an impoverished, cancer-ridden man who once had been her husband had gone into a bathroom, stood before a mirror and stabbed himself seven times with a pair of common sewing scissors. Reporters telephoned Miss Farrar at her Ridgefield, Conn. home, asked for comment on Lou Tellegen's death. Her reply was characteristically candid: "Why should that interest...
...role since then has been that of a country gentlewoman in Connecticut. She keeps birds and gardens, admires the neighbors' babies. Every day her father ("Syd"), who keeps a separate home in Ridgefield, comes over to luncheon with her, eats in his shirtsleeves when the weather is warm. That Miss Farrar's energy and determination have outlasted her once raven-black hair was proven last summer when on the way to the Salzburg Festival, Nazis stopped her German chauffeur, refused to let him pass the border. Miss Farrar got out of her car, hiked a good five miles into town...
...their maturing principal in new bonds, one-half in cash borrowed from the R.F.C. Long before March 1, President Willard knew his plan had succeeded: 99.9 % of the issue had been deposited. Last week the only holders who objected publicly to the plan- George Le Boutiller & wife* of Ridgefield, Conn.- turned in their $5,000 of B. & O. bonds. Meantime another and more fearsome ghost had risen to plague Daniel Willard. Last spring Boston's crusty old Frederick Henry Prince, whose pet aversion is professors in Government and whose fortune is chiefly in railroads, turned up in Washington with...
...raise a bit of hell with you. But recalling that you ran Al Capone inthe same space some time ago I saw the fitness of things and congratulate you. After all Germany is in the hands of gangsters right now and Goebbels is their blaring brass. OSCAR LEONARD Ridgefield, Conn. To Subscriber Leonard, praise for able association of ideas...