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Last week President Edgar Winfred Stark of Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., Louisiana. Mo.,* flourished the papers which gave him the first patent in the world on a fruit tree. It covers his Hal-Berta giant peach tree. The Hal-Berta, President Stark excitedly sets forth, "bears uniformly large, rosy-cheeked, delicious to eat, yellow-fleshed, freestone peaches, many of them weighing more than a pound, ripening a few days after the Hale-Elberta [peach] season when a truly high quality peach such as the Hal-Berta Giant will mean profit to the man who grows them and pleasure...
Died. Colonel William Aiken Starrett, 54, builder of skyscrapers, president of Starrett Corp.; after a series of apoplectic strokes; in Madison, N. J. One of five brothers, all builders or architects, he successively founded Thompson-Starrett Co. (construction), Starrett & Van Vleck architects). Starrett Bros. & Eken, builders of the Empire State Building and nucleus of his holding company, Starrett Corp. As chairman of the War Industries Board's construction committee, Builder Starrett directed the erection of all cantonments, hospitals. Army bases in the U. S. To Japan he introduced special teel frame buildings designed to resist arthquakes. An articulate champion...
Models and plans of all four of the apostles were shown at the Modern Museum last week and with them the work of several of their U. S. disciples: Howe & Lescaze, Richard J. Neutra. Bowman Bros., and the recent convert Raymond Hood. Of particular interest were a Howe & Lescaze model of an ideal tenement, built on stilts to save the cost of cellar excavating; and Raymond Hood's elaborate model of a 21-story apartment tower for the country, designed to occupy the centre of a large co-operative garden...
...made enough money to get Eldest Brother Demetrius. But the War held him back. Spyros then joined the aviation, Charles, the infantry, and George operated the few small theatres they had obtained. After the War the Brothers Skouras expanded and in 1928 sold most of their houses to Warner Bros., with which they became associated. Last year they resigned from Warner Bros. With George as financier, Spyros as promoter and Charles as showman, they again began expanding. They leased many a theatre in the East from Fox on a 26-year basis, a few from Paramount. Last week they completed...
...last week at the clubhouse of the American Women's Association, refereed by onetime Chess Champion Jose Capablanca, won by a Miss Elizabeth Wray. Named, for no particular reason, after King Arthur's hometown, Camelot was invented three years ago by George Swinnerton Parker, head of Parker Bros. of Salem, Mass., who manufacture more games than anyone else in the U.S. Camelot is played with pieces resembling pawn chessmen on an irregularly checkered board. It comes in "editions" of which Parker Bros. say they have sold...