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...William Selden Miles, 78, a jovial little Negro, is captain in charge of the cardroom café at Manhattan's arch-Republican Union League Club. Last week, in behalf of the Club he has served for 60 years, Banker James Herbert Case handed Miles a bankbook containing $600 in deposits...
...Stage in Action by Samuel Selden (Crofts; $2.75), a learned study of the function of rhythmics in theatrical movement, sound, design...
...greatest accomplishment by saying, "This is the first time I have ever earned any money in my life." Broadcasting over WBZ the last two Friday evenings at 8 o'clock, he has competed with boys and girls between the ages of twelve and sixteen in answering questions asked by Selden M. Loring '20 in the fields of literature, music, history, and science...
Ever since 1911, when Henry Ford won the basic Selden patent suit against most of the rest of the automobile industry, he has gone his own way, had no truck with the Automobile Manufacturers' Association, held his own auto shows, stood out in a cooperative industry as an arch-individualist. Exceptions: 1) after Ford Motor Co. bought Lincoln Motor Co., an A. M. A. member, Lincolns continued to take part in A. M. A. shows; 2) Ford suggested and cooperated in the industrywide Used Car Week of 1939; 3) Ford joined in the simultaneous introduction of the Sealed-Beam...
Another Allied acquisition last week was Edgar Selden Bloom, longtime president of the $281,000,000 A. T. & T. subsidiary Western Electric (which makes 80-90% of all U. S. telephone equipment). Circumstances made it easy for the British Purchasing Commission to obtain the services of a front-rank U. S. businessman as purchasing agent. Though his hair is not white, Mr. Bloom last week turned 65 (Western Electric's retirement age), announced he would retire Dec. 31* and take the British Commission's job as Director of Purchases...