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...preparations are being made by agents of the United States Lines for the accommodation of the Harvard representative. Within ten days of the announcement of the name of the winner tickets and contract will be sent him and suggestions for his better accommodation will follow shortly...
Last week, the Victor Talking Machine Co. (TIME, Jan. 12) announced that no more would the famed opera and concert stars under contract to them broadcast on the radio. These free broadcastings had not boosted but had decreased the sales of Victor phonograph records. Last week, therefore, the Company replaced great artists * on their concert programs with such names as Rudy Wiedoeft, Billy Murray, Hank Burr...
...Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor, was accused by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association of being a loafer, how his contract to carve the figures of Generals Lee, Jackson and their armies on Stone Mountain was canceled, how he pounded his models into bits with a hammer, secretly, and fled the state, how he was billed through four states, pursued, arrested in North Carolina on charges of malicious mischief, released on a writ of habeas corpus, has been told (TIME, Mar. 2, Mar. 9). Last week, Borglum little relaxed his activity...
...effect the final disposition of the criminal cases against Borglum, which disposition will be left absolutely with the State authorities." To refute the impression that no man in the U. S. would now have dealings with him, Sculptor Borglum announced a new project, said he had entered a contract to carve the figures of Washington and Lincoln on a mountain in South Dakota...
...reasons for giving the contract to the Aetna Life Insurance Company were that its propositions were more liberal and that the company had handled very satisfactorily a practically identical plan last year for M. I. T. Another advantage of the Aetna offer was that it would write policies for as low an amount as $250, which, in the words of the M. I. T. committee, "was deemed essential because it makes the plan more flexible financially; simplifies the matter of collections and practically places it entirely in the hands of the company. The Aetna is also recognized throughout the country...