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Died. Richard Davenport Harlan, 71, son of the late U. S. Chief Justice John Marshall Harlan, onetime Presbyterian president of Lake Forest College; of a throat infection; in Washington. His wife died three days prior...
...widow, Lolita Sheldon Armour, sold their beautiful 838-acre estate, Mellody Farm (on the "North Shore" near Lake Michigan, in Lake Forest), and almost all her private securities, but still there were creditors. Then she offered them 400 shares of Universal Oil Products Co. for which, when he was most needy, she had paid her husband $1,500,000 of her own fortune. The creditors laughed, said the stock was a liability...
Last week Mrs. Armour sold that stock, as part of a larger deal (see below), for $8,216,058. She moved back to Lake Forest to a five-acre estate about two miles east of Mellody Farm, which is being converted into a country club. She prepared to have the record of her husband's insolvency stricken off the county books, crying: "I guess this shows that Mr. Armour was justified! . . . And those bankers who called my stock a liability! Well, I can laugh now at them...
...review there seems to more to be said for them than against them," wrote Robert Torrens Hatt, mammalogist of the American Museum of Natural History, in a monograph on meadow mice, The Biology of the Voles of New York, published in the current bulletin of the Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station, Syracuse, N. Y. Mouse Man Hatt's brief for mice: They till the soil with their burrowings, are especially helpful in wet lowlands when their tunnels act as drains. Like the earthworm they bring subsoil to the surface, carry vegetable matter underground to enrich the soil. Excreta...
Died. James H. Douglas, 72, chairman of the executive committee of Quaker Oats Co., of heart disease; in Lake Forest...