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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philanthropy. Last fortnight the University of Chicago announced receipt from him of $1,000,000 for an art center where esthetic history and theory will be studied and taught, pundits will lecture, exhibitions will be held. The building will stand near the University's resplendent new chapel, upon the plans for which a great U. S. artist-the late Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue-was working at the time of his death (TIME, April...
More placid than that of the general practitioner is the lot of most patent lawyers. But last week in Manhattan, Patent Attorney Aaron L. Applebaum was called upon by two of his clients, the brothers Leonardo and Pietro Danna, recent immigrants from Sicily. They had invented a water bicycle. They had wanted a patent. They had asked Mr. Applebaum to get it for them, then called frequently to see if it had come. Unable to comprehend the law's delay, by nature suspicious and cranky, Brother Pietro now drew a gun, shot Patent Attorney Applebaum to death...
...read an article entitled, "A Cheese Business for the Ages," written by James Louis Kraft and printed in the monthly Kraft house-organ, Cheesekraft. If the stockholder had read further, past a reference to "dear old aunt Beckey. She has gone to her reward," he would have come upon President Kraft's prediction for the future: "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia-all earnestly...
...having contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing her fingertips as she has seen the French do. "And 7 discovered him! I have done as much for French composers, for Italians. That at last I should have discovered an American...
Princeton Junction, N. J., has an unpredictable railroad platform. Upon it you may see anybody from a debutante to an astronomer, for Princeton University is nearby. But always you will see, getting on the early morning commuters' train, getting off the early evening commuters' train, a neat, plump little man for whom a robins-egg Rolls-Royce stands at stately attention; for whom a footman leaps from the box; for whom the train will back up if necessary to set this important passenger down at the precise spot he wishes. Plump and neat, he trots between Rolls-Royce...