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Finishing college in three years, Whitney worked one year for Kidder, Peabody & Co., a Boston brokerage house. After joining the Potter, Choate, & Prentice Co. of New York, he purchased in 1912 a seat on the Exchange. Later he was with Cummings & Marckwald, which was changed in 1916 to the Richard Whitney Co. During the War he worked for the Food Administration in Washington. At the twenty-fifth reunion of his class he was acknowledged one of its most prominent members by being chosen one of the two speakers at the banquet...
...cinema trickery can dim the essential vigor of Tom Sawyer. Tom's system for getting the fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted the next by the unholy delight of feeding Pain-killer to Peter, the cat. The painful croppers of his acrobatic courtship of Becky Thatcher, the sharp thimble thumps of exasperated Aunt Polly, the ecstasy and heartache of runaway buccaneering and the bursting...
Died, Honore Palmer Jr.. 29. artist, grandson of Chicago's late great Merchant Potter Palmer; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered during setting up exercises; in Manhattan...
...England there exists a Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society, which a year ago failed to get the House of Lords to pass a bill making mercy killing legal. Last February one of Dr. Potter's high-placed disciples, John H. Comstock of the Nebraska Legislature, failed to persuade that body to legalize the unorthodox procedure. Last week Dr. Potter promised that Mr. Comstock will try again this term. Other disciples promised to introduce similar bills in the Ohio and New York Legislatures and in Congress. If these bills become law, anyone who can get two disinterested doctors to convince...
Arguing that his newest enthusiasm has good chance for success in the U. S., Dr. Potter cited Czechoslovakia's new penal code which provides that a person who "kills on request" receives a five-to-ten-year prison sentence, and he who "kills in sympathy" is liable to three months to five years...