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Only Mrs. Wiley, the Anna Campbell Kelton who married him in 1911 when he was 66 after aiding him for years at the Department of Agriculture, who bore him two sons and to whom he dedicated his Autobiography, realized last month that Dr. Wiley was sick unto death, and in no fit condition to testify...
...sister Elizabeth Jane also became a doctor, married a doctor, bore Harvey Wiley Corbett, famed Manhattan architect...
...will get a fine kick out of it, as inspired prophet of coming events. About Mr. Hughes' literary tastes he says: "For the past twenty-four years Mr. Hughes has cultivated Dumas, and knows more about Athos, Porthos, D'Artagnan and Aramis than did the mothers who bore them...
...From private school he went to Yale (A.B. 1873) and Columbia (LL.B. 1876). After a brief clerkship in New York, he returned to Stamford to do legal work for Yale & Towne, famed locksmiths. Today he is Yale & Towne's board chairman. In 1879 he married Frances Hoyt who bore him two daughters, Louise and Katharine. In 1904 he dropped his corporation law practise long enough to help his Slate rewrite its constitution. As a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1916 he helped nominate Charles Evans Hughes for the Presidency. In 1917 at a special election...
Theatres. Last year Warner Brothers spent $28,000,000 buying theatres. This year, shrewd Vice President & General Manager Sam Morris told the delegates, they will buy "about 1,000 theatres." Added President Harry: "Wherever we cannot play our products, we will establish theatres of our own." Press announcements soon bore out these assertions: 1) Warner Brothers bought for $1,000,000 a plot in Dayton owned by Lee Warner James on which they will build a $2,500,000 theatre. 2) Warner Brothers were about to close a $2,500,000 deal giving them the Schine chain of 50 theatres...