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...head of International Paper is 43-year-old Archibald Robertson Graustein, Harvard graduate, onetime Boston lawyer. Lawyer Graustein rose to sudden fame by so guiding the affairs of the insolvent Riordon Co. (Canadian pulp concern) that bondholders emerged after four years without loss. This extraordinary achievement took him to International Paper in 1924 as president. One of his first acts was to buy the Riordon Co., merge it with International Paper. His directorships, besides New England Power, include the Corn Exchange Bank, Missouri Pacific Railroad, American Surety Co., Manville Jenckes...
Futile had been the attempt to cure the young mute by the sudden changes of air pressure incident to so wild an airplane ride. Such cures have occasionally resulted when deafness or vocal paralysis was functional. But not when either was organic, as in this case. Julius Shaefer was mute from a lesion in his brain. Yet, his mother, against the objection of her Dr. Samuel C. Reiss, had put her child through the ordeal, stubbornly faithful that science could cure...
...military reservists fought the flames mightily, inspired by the actual participation of Royalty in the sousing and beating out of Fire, and in the lighting of controlled counter fires to check the progress of the conflagration. That His Majesty's participation was not "bunk" shortly appeared, when a sudden gust of wind drove a shower of sparks in his direction, burning him painfully about the face, singeing royal hair. Thus the Tsar who has never been crowned, because he declares that his people are too poor to bear the expense of Coronation, stood forth, once more, primarily...
Memorable, last week, was the sudden, unexpected burst of activity in the steel industry (see below...
...George W. Button Jr., of Manhattan and Darien, Conn., was master of ceremonies at a seaplane and motorboat regatta last week. He stood on the dock, signalled for the start, uttered a cry of sudden pain. A burning wad from the little brass cannon, used as a starting gun, had penetrated his left leg to a depth of one inch...