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...Greenway was born Isabella Selmes 46 years ago in Kentucky. Fatherless at 8, she went to private school in Manhattan, there met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She was bridesmaid at the Roosevelt-Roosevelt wedding on St. Patrick's Day, 1905. Next year, aged 19, she married Robert Monroe Ferguson, bore him a son and a daughter, went West to homestead in New Mexico. Mr. Ferguson died in 1921 and she married his good friend John Greenway two years later. Mr. Greenway died...
Next to Henry and Edsel Ford, the Czechoslovak family of Bat'a (pro- nounced Bahtya) continue to be the world's most vigorous "Fordizers." Fifty-seven years ago the spouse of a poor cobbler in Zlin bore Thomas Bat'a. In a heroic life of mechanized striving he made Zlin the "Shoe Capital" of Europe. Because, like Henry Ford, he profoundly mistrusted financiers, Thomas Bat'a took fanatical care to remain the First Working Partner in a partnership which embraced all his employes. No one outside the partnership may own Bat'a stock. In Zlin...
Heirs. No doubt it will always be called Curtis Publishing Co. But when Cyrus, aged 83. died, the family name was buried with him. An only son. he had no sons. In 1875 he married Louisa Knapp who started Ladies' Home Journal. She bore him one daughter, Mary Louise, who grew up to marry Editor Bok. and in turn to bear him two sons. Curtis & Gary. Less than six months after his first wife died in 1910, Publisher Curtis married his second cousin, Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury, widow of a Milwaukee lumberman. She died a year ago. This...
...youngsters working over "the glory hole" reduced her to tears. She went to Cornell, wrote a thesis on "The Law and the Child." She worked at Chicago's Hull House, Manhattan's Henry Street Settlement, traveled abroad, became an out & out Socialist. She married a Polish count, bore him two children, took the name of Mrs. Florence Kelley after her divorce. She served four years as Illinois' first factory inspector. She helped to found the National Consumers' League, was its longtime secretary. Because her heart bled for overworked salesgirls, she started the "Shop Early For Christmas...
...putting out into Great South Bay to catch weakfish, with his son Robert. Actor Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing's Vice President Alexander Throttlebottom) lost control of his outboard motorboat, Embobora II, when its tiller inexplicably came loose in his hand. Down upon him bore a dory. There was a smash-bang amidships and the next thing Alexander Throttlebottom knew he was thrashing about beneath his own overturned craft. He tried to duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless...