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...crashing wave of affairs that brought an end to the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek (see col. 2) last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government...
Birthday. Of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson: his 81st, celebrated by proxy in Manhattan by Mrs. Anne Ide Cockran, relict of Congressman William Bourke Cockran. For 40 years Mrs. Cockran has had full & undisputed right to Author Stevenson's birthday (Nov. 13). Reason: In 1891 her father, General Henry C. Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his friend Stevenson that small Daughter Annie always felt grieved because she had no real birthday: hers fell on Dec. 25. Straightway kind Author Stevenson drew up, signed and had witnessed a deed: ". . . In consideration that Miss Annie...
When a rich man or woman goes quietly for years about the business of subsidizing music, his philanthropy comes to be taken for granted. Manhattan three weeks ago heard with regret of the sudden passing of Harriet Bishop Lanier, relict of Banker James F. D. Lanier (Winslow, Lanier & Co.), who in 19 years gave nearly $1,000,000 toward the support of the Society of the Friends of Music. Fortnight ago people perfunctorily approved a memorial concert to Mrs. Lanier in which Conductor Artur Bodanzky presented the Actus Tragicus, Bach's mourning cantata. But last week musical people were...
Left, By the late Thomas Alva Edison: an estate estimated at $14,000,000; to his six children (save for $28,000 to three old employes). The children of his first marriage (to Mary G. Stilwell, died 1884) are Mrs. Marion Estelle Edison Oser of Norwalk. Conn., relict of a German officer; Thomas Alva Edison Jr., consulting engineer to Edison industries; William Leslie Edison, 53, inventor, of Wilmington, Del. The children of Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, who is mentioned in the will as having been "adequately provided for," are Charles Edison, 41, president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Mrs. John...
Died. Mrs. Thomas Power O'Connor, relict of famed Irish Parliamentarian "Tay Pay" O'Connor; of pneumonia; in London. Daughter of a Texas judge, she first married F. G. Howard of Washington, by whom she had a son. Author of several books, she wrote a play, A Lady from Texas, in which she played the leading role in London...