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Meanwhile the school has turned out many a notable graduate, including: Poet Robert Silliman Hillyer, Playwright-Direc- tor Worthington C. Miner, Vice President Edward T. Gushee of Detroit Edison Co., Vice President Henry T. Skelding of Guaranty Trust Co., Editor Albert G. Lanier of St. Nicholas, Novelist James Gould Cozzens. So enthusiastically did they spread the Kent gospel that by 1923 the enrolment demand had exceeded Father Sill's conception of what a school body should be. Nearby, under his guidance, was founded South Kent School, with one of his graduates, Samuel Slater Bartiett, as headmaster. First South Kent senior...
...presence. . . . Usually when they hear what I have to say the drinking stops, for I always say to the bartender or the owner: 'Aren't you ashamed to be in such a contemptible business?' " Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and President Matthew Scott Sloan of New York Edison Co. were guests of Bernard Gimbel, department-store man, at a luncheon in Manhattan. Chaffed Tycoon Sloan: "Now tell us, what made Madame Queen faint in the courtroom?" Retorted Amos: "She saw her electric light bill...
Eighty-four-year old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison last week visited Rubber-man Harvey Samuel Firestone's Miami Beach plantations, went to bed with a new invention, the "de-humidifier," in his room-a machine to abstract moisture from the air, lessen humidity fatigue. Mr. Edison arose beaming, described the apparatus as not yet ready for the market...
James Cox Brady Jr., 23, nephew of the late Nicholas Frederic Brady, was elected a director of Brooklyn Edison Co-He is already a director of New York Edison...
...following were news last week: Floyd Leslie Carlisle, chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Co., was elected chairman of New York Edison Co., big subsidiary of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Immediately after the death of Edison-Chairman Nicholas Frederic Brady (TIME, April 7), Mr. Carlisle was added to the Edison and Gas directorates. Then, as again last week, the news started many a rumor of a vast merger between Consolidated Gas and Niagara Hudson Power...