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...sweltering day last week, after a few rounds of cool Budweiser, some 35 financial newshawks sat down at a long table as the guests of Robert Ralph Young, amiable spokesman-member of the trio which bought control of the Van Sweringen railroad empire from George A. Ball, the Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar tycoon (TIME, May 3). It was quiet Mr. Young who described himself and his two partners-Allan P. Kirby and Frank F. Kolbe-as "just babes in the woods." Last week the "Babes" started out of the woods. Before the luncheon in Rockefeller Center the directors of Alleghany...
HILLYER H. STRATON Pastor First Baptist Church Muncie, Ind...
Tune Detective Sigmund Spaeth last week became the possessor of a new job and title when executives of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., convening in French Lick, Ind., announced his appointment as dean of the Wurlitzer School of Music. The school has 100 studios in the East, teaches 25,000 students, mainly of high-school age, how to play Wurlitzer instruments. About half study the accordion. Next favorite is the saxophone. Students start out on a simple course costing about $1.25 a week, including use of the instrument. Well-advertised Dean Spaeth will have charge of all schools, plans to tour them...
...Terre Haute, Ind. in the 1870s one Jacob Baur ran a drugstore. When he needed soda water for his fountain, he would put some marble dust in a bottle, add sulphuric acid, capture the escaping carbon dioxide gas and pass it under pressure through water. In spare moments Jacob Baur worked on a machine to make carbonated water commercially. Soon he perfected the "coke" method now in use everywhere.* Raising $75,000, Druggist Baur went to Chicago, started the predecessor of Liquid Carbonic Corp. on Illinois Street just north of the Chicago River in 1888. For ten years he manufactured...
...Nizamiah Mosque-designed on Oriental lines by Sir Brumwell Thomas-will be the finest in any non-Moslem land. For U. S. Mohammedans there are two places for formal worship, a small, three-story frame building in Brooklyn and a temple in Michigan City, Ind., whose 80 Moslems plan to build a mosque when they acquire enough money. Elsewhere Moslems who cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore has the world's only mosque with a public address system, the muezzin's call to prayer being heard a mile...