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Most patriotic of early U. S. composers was an Englishman. In 1792 James Hewitt settled in Manhattan, where he conducted concerts for the peruked and crinolined promenaders at Delacroix's Vaux Hall Gardens. So fervent became Britisher Hewitt's Americanism that he deplored the British alehouse origin of The Star-Spangled Banner,* wrote himself a brand-new musical setting for Francis Scott Key's words...
Retorted Dr. Norris Wistar Vaux: "We are not going back to the days of midwifery. We are going ahead to greater and better operative technique. The policy I of watchful waiting in delivery is as old and obsolete as mid-wifery...
Divco to Continental. Continental Motors Corp., maker of engines for many automobiles, last week bought Divco Detroit Corp., manufacturer of milk delivery trucks. Continental lately entered the passenger car field by purchasing De Vaux-Hall Motors Corp. (TIME...
...from $10 to $55. Pontiac followed with reductions of from $20 to $50. In the higher brackets, Hupmobile made $100 to $200 reductions. Willys-Overland, with its six-cylinder roadster $45 under the Ford V-eight, said it would enter no price war. Rockne, Graham-Paige, Continental-de Vaux all said no price changes were contemplated...
Last week Continental Motors Corp., maker of engines for many pleasure cars and trucks, bought de Vaux-Hall's Michigan assets for $40,000, at the same time waiving a claim of $250,000 for unpaid bills. Continental plans to rush production on a new model de Vaux...