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Spotted in Chicago boarding a train for Arizona, Illinois' old onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden cheerfully ex plained that inasmuch as his dairy farm near Rockford was submerged by water and ice, he had nothing to do but travel...
Scandinavians: In Rockford, Ill., he noted the Swedish population's celebration of Leif Ericson Day, cried: "The descendants of the Scandinavian people have not lost in a thousand years the spirit and fortitude which Leif Ericson so well demonstrated...
...help putting people in her landscapes or painting a sky red if she feels like it. Born 32 years ago to a merchant-banker in Aledo, Ill., Doris was brought up to be an "outdoorsy" gentlewoman. She went to a swank school in Lake Forest, majored in philosophy at Rockford College, became student art instructor, married a chemical engineer named Russell Werner Lee. In Paris she got pointers from André L'Hôte, in Kansas City from Ernest Lawson and the late Anthony Angorola, in San Francisco from Arnold Blanch. She and her husband live...
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...Sheaffer; Kohler Co.'s Walter J. Kohler; Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden; Adman Bruce Barton; Camelman S. Clay Williams; Kodakman William G. Stuber; Soapman Richard R. Deupree: Woolman Lionel J. Noah; President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; President Ray Wantz of Rockford (Ill.) Fibre Container Co. About the only notable business figures absent were Brooklyn's poultry-dealing Brothers Schechter, who upset NRA, and that embattled Manhattan jeweler, Norman C. Norman, who carried his "Gold Clause" case to the Supreme Court...