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...Georgian "Princes" David, the late Serge and Alexis Mdivani; in The Hague. Died. Harry Palmerston Williams, 46, son of Louisiana's late Lumber Tycoon Frank B. Williams, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, speed-plane builder associated with the late pilot "Jimmy" Wedell (Wedell-Williams); in an airplane crash; at Baton Rouge, La. Died. Commander Elmer F. Stone, U. S. N., 49, co-pilot of the seaplane N-C 4 which in 1919 made the first transatlantic flight; of a heart attack; in San Diego, Calif...
...Jackson, looking his 70 years, adjusted his bifocal spectacles, described his method of repairing a throat crushed and puckered by a blow, strangulation, fall, crash or gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that...
...third time in a seven-year rise to riches, Charles Willard Young founded a Manhattan investment counsel firm. His first was Young & Ottley, launched in 1929 with the financial aid of a fellow Yaleman named James Henry Ottley. Young & Ottley promptly established itself by calling the stock-market crash. In 1933 young Mr. Young pulled out of Young & Ottley, moved from Manhattan's Chanin Building diagonally across 42nd Street to the Chrysler Building. There with new backers, notably James Cox Brady, Mr. Young set up an-other investment counsel firm called C. W. Young & Co., with himself as president...
Alan Harriman, only son of Joseph Wright Harriman, was killed in an automobile crash in 1928. For his burial, the elder Harriman bought a plot of 2,531 sq. ft. in a cemetery at Locust Valley, N. Y. for $8,246. Five years later, escaping from a Manhattan sanatorium where he was held pending trial for the Harriman National Bank failure, Joseph W. Harriman spent a night and a day at his son's grave, later tried weakly to kill himself when discovered at a nearby inn (TIME...
...smaller and squattier. It is almost perfectly streamlined, even the license plates and tail-lamp being recessed into the body and covered with Pyralin windows flush with the streamlining. There are no door handles; the doors must be opened with special keys. Dr. Bridges pronounced the Lightning Bug crash-proof and carbon-monoxide-proof. "My whole aim," said he, "was to show what could be done to attain safety, economy and readability in a small...