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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...
...flip and out pops Big Boy for another try. ... It was a disappointment in May; it will be hated in June; and by July it will be tyranny. You have literally commanded the players who worked and slaved for years to break 90, to work and slave quite a bit harder to break...
...unfortunately is not a proper noun, nor yet an improper girl. Quite a wag, the old fellow. And then there is the Saturday Evening Post. Long years ago the Vagabond had a nickle which, being a shiftless wastrel, he immediately spent. Even in those bygone days he had a bit of the intellectual about him. None of those candy bars for him. That was throwing money away, so he bought a Post. Since then the habit has clung, to his embarrassment. When caught reading it he is wont to turn upon his accuser and answer, "Oh just, reading...
Hopefully he added: "Sometimes such bites are poisonous. The police may be able to find him when he goes to a doctor, for I bit to the bone...
...repay I. H. C., Ltd. out of his own pocket the whole $150,000 they had advanced. Did they really want it, with all that such a transaction would imply? They did. He wrote a check, which they promptly deposited. When next I. H. C., Ltd. saw this bit of paper it bore the rubber stamp, "Account closed." On Feb. 18 Dr. Owen was deep in conversation at the Savoy Hotel with Alexander Roland Smith, general manager of Ford Motor Co., Ltd. As I. H. C. were now out of the picture, Ford, Ltd. were willing to be nominated, although...