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...school in 1916 and managed it with distinction for 20 years. When Dr. Ament died last year, National Park had a glamorous list of alumnae including Cinemactress Margaret Lindsay, Soprano Marion Claire, Irene Castle McLaughlin, the daughters of Walter P. Chrysler and Milton Snavely Hershey. Last fortnight his widow, Mrs. Teresa Catherine Ament, put National Park into the hands of an equally remarkable midwestern educator, Dr. Roy Tasco Davis, who simultaneously resigned as public relations director of Missouri's Stephens College...
Although President Davis will head a new operating company formed to run the school, Widow Ament will retain control of National Park Seminary Co. which owns its "physical properties." These comprise a woodsy 200-acre campus with 44 buildings, including eight resident clubhouses built in the style of various nations. The English has a drawbridge, the Chinese resembles a pagoda. Other National Park wonders are a ballroom with 24 balconies, acres of antique furniture purchased by Dr. Ament during his travels, a Negro kitchen staff which appears on a balcony over the dining room to sing spirituals during meals. National...
What President Hotchkiss had read was the routine account of a transfer tax appraisal of the estate of Mrs. William B. Cogswell, widow of a rich Rensselaer alumnus who pioneered the Belgian Solvay chemical processes (soda products, coke) in the U. S., helped form giant Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. in 1920. Mr. Cogswell died in 1921, his wife last year in Manhattan. To her sisters, the middle-aged Misses Elizabeth and Florence Browning of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, the appraisal revealed that Mrs. Cogswell left a net estate of $4,266,548, plus two trust funds, each consisting...
Scali. To his widow, Inventor Marconi willed the interest on his daughter's bequest during her lifetime. To his son and two daughters by his first wife, Irish Beatrice Donough who divorced him in 1024, he left the minimum permitted by Italian law; to his first wife, associates and Fascist charities, nothing. Left-By Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden, late wife of Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, daughter of Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, an estate of approximately $500.000; to her husband...
Died. Anning Smith Prall, 66, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, six-time (1923-35) Representative from New York's eleventh Congressional District; in Boothbay Harbor, Me. Died-Mrs. Delia Spencer Caton Field, 84, widow of Chicago Department Store Owner Marshall Field; in Beverly, Mass. Mrs. Field was first married to Arthur J. Caton, Chicago corporation lawyer, who died in 1904. A year later she married Merchant Field, who died...