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...Willard Thorp, 34, is the twenty-third college professor President Roosevelt has called to Washington as part of his ''Brain Trust.'' The new bureau chief was born in Oswego, N. Y., educated in Duluth. Amherst graduated him in 1920. He took his master's degree at Michigan, his doctor's at Columbia. He worked for the National Bureau of Economic Research, which published his Business Annals. Other writings include The Integration of Industrial Operation and Economic Changes. In 1926 he returned to Amherst, has been teaching economics there ever since. Tall chubbily handsome...
...Beatrice Gottlieb, 1-handicap golfer of Tuckahoe, N. Y.: an 18-hole match against the Prince of Wales; 5 & 4; at Coombe Hill, England. Vastly pleased and perturbed at being the first woman golfer to beat the Prince, Miss Gottlieb gave him one of her iron clubs which he fancied, got a box of balls and an autographed scorecard in return...
Died. Henry F. Sanborn, 44, general eastern agent of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., of bullet wounds in the heart inflicted by an unknown murderer; in Queens, N. Y. His body was found buried in a shallow grave 100 yd. off the Long Island Motor Parkway by berry pickers who saw his shoe sticking out of the ground. Police could establish no motive for the crime. They held his fiancee, a young Swedish interpreter, for questioning, and asked European police to question Bancroft Mitchell, son of onetime Attorney General William D. Mitchell. Just before sailing for France, Mitchell...
...been made publicly few could have guessed who was meant. The Press had never told the public that Andrew Mellon existed. Never before 1921 had the name of Andrew Mellon appeared in a famed newspaper whose motto is "All the News That's Fit to Print!" (N. Y. Times}. The Author- Harvey O'Connor, 36, born in Minneapolis, son of a railway cook, was raised in the Northwest, spent his early years as a journalist for the radical wing of American labor-editor of the Daily Call, International Weekly, Union Record (labor paper)-all in Seattle...
...Packer Jonathan Ogden Armour, paid $1,000,000 cash* to the estate of Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, daughter of Marshall Field, for a small (53.2 x 150.5 ft.) lot on the northeast corner of Chicago's State & Madison Streets, "world's busiest corner." Bought t»y Marshall Field in 1876 for $53,390, now part of the site of a department store, it returns $60,000 annually, is assessed...