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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eaton is a member of ten clubs, including a fishing club and two hunt clubs, one of which, at Northfield, Ohio (where Acadia Farms, his summer home, is located) he founded and subsidized. He has made many gifts (one of $250,000) to McMasters University, also to Denison University (Ohio), and is a University of Chicago trustee. On a visit to his home town of Pugwash he disliked the hotel accommodations, so undertook a campaign of municipal improvement which included the straightening of Main Street, a park, and a new hotel. Shortly after these improvements, the whole town was practically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Merger. There is many a venerable bank which only after years of business considers a merger. But last week directors of Underwriters Trust Co. of New York, three weeks old, admitted they were already discussing a merger with the two-year-old Sixth Avenue Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banks | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...following season to sing Mimi in La Boheme. When that time came she had used all her money; her cook had been buying the food out of her own savings. Even the day after her great success, Singer Stiles had to ask the cook for an additional two francs to buy her morning coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Elsa | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Another feature of the same Stokowski concert: Conductor Stokowski, who lately railed loudly and publicly against the "barbaric" practice of applause (TIME, Nov. 18), stepped off his dais when two of his violists distinguished themselves and happily, forgetfully, led the audience in palm-smacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Theremin Recognized | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...many an expert musician. 'Cellist Pablo Casals and Soprano Lucrezia Bori led the procession. They were followed by Conductor Enrique Fernandez Arbos, guest of the St. Louis Symphony, Guitarist Andrès Segovia, and Dancer Argentina who makes music with her heels and castanets. This year has added two more names, the Aguilar Lutanists (TIME, Dec. 2) and José Iturbi, famed throughout Europe and South America as Spain's greatest pianist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Iturbi | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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