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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medicine; Dean Charles Phillips Emerson of the University of Indiana School of Medicine; President Arlo Ayres Brown of Drew University, Madison, N.J.; Dean Albert Russell Mann of New York State's College of Agriculture at Cornell University; Mr. & Mrs. Harper Sibley, rich religious leaders of Rochester, N. Y. † Last month Dr. Clarence True Wilson, publicly criticizing the personnel of the Wickersham Commission, characterized Commissioner Ada Comstock as "President of a woman's college [Radcliffe] which has been known as one of the wettest and one of the smokiest. . . ." **By sudden, unexpected fire drills at dead of night...
...Paderewski's last three U. S. appearances were the high spots of three spring festivals: in Ann Arbor, Mich., Evanston, 111., Westchester County, N. Y.* It was the Westchester engagement that made him late for S.S. Paris. Just previously he had surprised people by announcing that he would return for four months next year. In his season's valedictory he said: "This country is experiencing a gratifying cultural development manifested in the increased attendance of young persons at concerts. . . . There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely...
...Interesting also last week was the Festival of American Music in Rochester, N. Y., given to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the School of Music, founded by Cameraman George Eastman...
Sued for Separation, Graham McNamee, radio announcer, "talking reporter" for Universal Newsreel; by Mrs. Josephine Garrett McNamee; in Manhattan. They eloped in 1921 (by means of a ladder) after a romance which began when they sang together in a concert at Bronxville, N. Y. Announcer McNamee said the separation was not by mutual consent, did not know what the charges were...
Died. Mrs. Ida Brandow Young, 92, mother of Board Chairman Owen D. Young of General Electric Co.; of injuries caused by a fall last April (TIME, April 20) ; in Vanhornesville, N. Y. The First Lady of Vanhornesville, Mrs. Young was whimsical, keenminded, to her neighbors "a bit of a character." When Mr. Young had electric lights installed in the town he placed the main switch in his mother's house and for many years the townspeople went to bed when Mrs. Young decided to turn off their lights...