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PAUL COREY Cold Spring, N. Y...
...chosen from the sidewalks of New York (Gehrig's nursery). Last week the Baseball Writers Association of America, waiving the rule that a candidate must be out of play for at least a year, unanimously voted Lou Gehrig into Baseball's Hall of Fame* at Cooperstown, N. Y...
...Flushing, N. Y., Deputy Health Commissioner John Grimley ordered evicted Eskimo Robert Mayokok, his wife, four children, from a World's Fair igloo. Reason: the igloo is an exhibit, not a domicile...
Died. Ernest Sutherland Bates, 60, insatiably curious author & critic, onetime literary editor of the Dictionary of American Biography; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, N. Y. In one work-crammed year (1936) Dr. Bates produced: The Story of the Supreme Court, The Story of Congress, Hearst, the Lord of San Simeon (coauthor), The Bible Designed To Be Read as Living Literature. Few minutes before his death Author Bates had concluded the preface to his latest book, American Faith, treatise on U. S. religions from 1860 to the present...
Kollsman Instrument Co. employed more than 400 men in its Elmhurst, N. Y. plant and its Glendale, Calif, branch factory, acquired a one-year backlog of instrument orders for outfitting new planes, received royalties on Kollsman's 200 patents. But no outsider really knew what it was worth until last week, when Paul Kollsman sold out to Square D Co. (maker of electric switches and control equipment, particularly an automatic circuit breaker cheap enough to be used in houses in place of fuse boxes...