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Maurice Falk, rich Pittsburgher, established a $10,000,000 trust fund (Maurice & Laura Falk Foundation) "for the promotion of educational, religious, charitable, philanthropic and public interest." Administered by his nephew Leon Falk Jr. (with whose father he gave the $900,000 Falk Clinic to the University of Pittsburgh) and six others, the principal & interest of the fund must be exhausted in 35 years...
...forward pass, hitherto barred except in a team's own territory, should be allowed in all zones. Each pass, to be sure, must stay in one of the three zones in which every rink is divided by blue lines drawn 60 feet apart and forming a quadrilateral whose centre is also the centre of the rink. A player may not pass from one end of the rink to a teammate at the other. But he may now pass the length of each zone in turn. This rule was supplemented by others penalizing players who loaf, for defensive purposes...
...Business, not Astronomy, is the loudest and strongest change urger. For under the present irregular system, accounting is beset by problems when it tries to compare the costs of months whose working days vary in number...
Because this item was widely used, members of the Association were happy. No association of doctors or fussy housekeepers, the Soap Association is composed of powerful soap manufacturers who control about 80% of U. S. production, whose publicizing subsidiary, Cleanliness Institute, during the past three years contributed $3,000,000 for "information useful to the public," laboratory work and market study. Its executives represent such soap makers as Procter & Gamble. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Armour & Co., Lever Bros. In no way is the Association a monopoly, for its members compete hotly for the business brought them by this method of collective...
...Peiping despatch reported last week. Actual finder was Pei Wenchung, Chinese archeologist, in the party of Dr. Davidson Black, Canadian paleontologist. The find is undoubtedly the most important archeological discovery of the year. It provides one complete and nine nearly complete skeletons of the "Peking man," pithecanthropus erectus, whose vestiges heretofore have consisted of but a skull top, a leg bone, a few teeth...