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...fifth, his harness tangled, fumbled and fumbled with it as the white-hot wreckage carried him to death. The flames ignited the parachute of one of the jumpers. He dropped straight to destruction. The other three landed. One died later of his injuries. Thus did the two survivors, Henry Wacker and John Boettner, take places one and two in the fiery inauguration of the Caterpillar Club...
...Insull, president of the Chicago Civic Opera's board of trustees. The 1928-29 deficit was $528,356, but with 500 more guarantors than before, the amount each paid was relatively small. Next year will be Chicago's banner opera year, beginning in a great new opera house on Wacker Drive, with an imposing list of singers and conductors engaged and re-engaged for the season...
...President Benjamin Harrison and Vice President Levi P. Morton, with incidental music by Adelina Patti. Romeo et Juliet had been the first opera, with Patti as Juliet, and Romeo was the valedictory last week, with Edith Mason for heroine. Next season will open a proud 42-story building on Wacker Drive...
...died in Evanston, Ill., last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 17), but no fabulous fortune did his will reveal. His estate was valued at $20,000,000; his investments, sound, shrewd, included stocks in Chicago Daily News; Chicago Rapid Transit; Commonwealth Edison; First National Bank, Chicago; Pullman, Inc.; Swift & Co.; 20 Wacker Drive Building Corp. Estate income goes mainly to Widow Amanda Louise Patten. Upon her death, estate will be divided, one half to charity, one half between Son John L. Patten, Daughter (Mrs.) Agnes Patten Wilder of Santa Barbara, California...
...cities grow, however, cities awaken. Chicago has taken its shore lines in hand, built new land with sandsuckers and made a new outer-driveway to the south as well as a made-land drive skirting Lincoln Park on the lakeside and a riverside boulevard (Wacker Drive) around scow-ridden reaches of the Chicago River. And last week New York City's Board of Estimate finally approved plans for a driveway, which will ameliorate land values as well as living standards, up the western shore of Manhattan Island from Canal Street to 59th Street. A linking boulevard from 59th Street...