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...market last month by Hadclorff Co. of Rockford, Ill., the Vertichord is the logical expression of the movement which caused makers long ago to scale down grand pianos to baby grands, uprights to pianettes. Measuring 45 in. high, 60 in. wide and 25 in. deep, the Vertichord is essentially a grand piano upended, combining the long strings and large sounding board of that instrument with the compactness of an upright, the grace of a spinet. Cost of the Vertichord: $295 to $445. Similar instruments are being marketed by other firms: the Vertical Grand, the Betsy Ross Spinet, the Spinet Grand...
...Bismarck the Langers still occupy the Executive Mansion from which Governor Ole Olson has not bothered to oust them. The Olson family continues to live and work on the Olson farm near New Rockford...
Died. Dr. William Maddox, president of Rockford College, onetime (1925-26) president of the Federation of Illinois Colleges; and Alfred O. Wilgeroth, head of the college's music department; when their automobile was struck by a freight train; near Rockford...
...make-up and presswork. Last week the "sweepstakes" winner was announced: the New York Times. Prize: a silver cup bearing the name of Francis Wayland Ayer, late founder of the agency. Honors also were awarded in two other classes. Among newspapers of 10,000 to 50,000 circulation: the Rockford (Ill.) Register-Republic. Among newspapers of 10,000 or less: the Chambersburg (Pa.) Public Opinion...
...Born in Rockford, Minn., Van Gates was an automobile salesman and occasional racer in San Francisco in 1910, when he saw the French Aeronaut Louis Paulhan thrilling crowds at Tanforan Track. He decided there was money to be made in exhibition flying. For $2,000 he picked up a flimsy biplane built by a Kansas City doctor, took a Swiss aviator as partner. The Swiss looked once, briefly, at the biplane and vanished. Rather than see the machine rot on its wheels, Gates started the engine one day, mounted the rickety seat, started taxiing about the field just...