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These Few Ashes. Kenneth Vail (Hugh Sinclair) lived idly in St. Moritz, Switzerland, had philanderer's blood of Alpine frigidity. There were four bothersome women, many bothersome creditors. He faked a death, eluded the creditors, could not elude one blonde (Natalie Schafer). But by that time his Wood was rather Italian. Playwright Leonard Ide uses the episodic development with flashbacks lately popularized by Novelists Wilder & Bromfield. The second episode, with Ralph J. Locke as a French husband whose adjustment to his wife's infidelity shows skilled amorous economics, is the funniest. Otherwise the froth refuses to bubble...
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...establish the "Augustus Clifford Tower Fund (1927)." Restricted until a specified time, after which one fellowship to a graduate of Harvard College for study in a French university; the other to a French student for study in any graduate department of Harvard University 100,000.00Estate of Theodore N. Vail 112,300.40H. S. Vanderbilt '07: Additional, for the Medical School Dormitory, and for the salary of an Instructor of Physical, Training, in the Medical School 470,100.00Estate of Artemas Ward '99: Additional 264,271.97From partners and friends: Additional, for "The John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge...
When Theodore Newton Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., died in 1920, his associates started a fund to give awards to employes who had distinguished themselves by "conspicuous public service." Last week the Vail Medals were given for 1925-five in all, three to women. And so the public heard how Mrs. Josephine L. August, night operator at Cassopolis, Mich., frustrated an attempt to rob the First National Bank; how Miss Ruby LaVerne Wilson, at Washington, Ark., tried to stop some bandits; why Emory Daniel Stine, lineman, waded into an icy stream at York, Pa.; what Repairer...
...quick communication has always been wanted, profitable. (This early hostility has long given way to present comity.) The telegraph company got Thomas A. Edison to work out a rival means of telephoning. The two Manhattan men were glad to sell out to the parent Bell company. Young Theodore N. Vail came in as General Manager, got supporting money from his friends, fought to vast success...