Glacier County chief., 1939-06-16
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

got on famously as long as he
stuck to tinkering, inventing and
fussing with machinery. He did
Without Wheels things. but any-
It's No Go for thing which
Vincent Bendix didn't have to
do with wheels,
cams, and pinions was just no dice.
1t was his Chicago real estate
deals which brought against him the
petition in voluntary bankruptcy
filed in Chicago. say his lawyers.
His holdings were more than $780,
600, including the famous Potter
Palmer Lake Shore drive residence
all down the chute in the federal
district court. His machinery COM
panies, not involved in the petition,
are rolling along nicely.
In the basement Of q New
York hospital, where he ran the
elevator, he had q grand time
taking an old hot-tube gas en-
CINE to pieces and putting Il to-.
gether again. He was II, mot
long from Chicago, where he
had been . telegraph messenger
boy. An old one-eyed swamper
around the place, who under. (.
stood machinery, had instruct
ed him In the working Of the
power plant and had encouraged
his laboratory work.
Two years later, the lad got job
as a typist in law Office, baffied
at first because he couldn't use q
monkey wrench on the typewriter.
But . law ONCE hadn't any
wheels, and he did better with
the Lackawanna railroad, which
had plenty, although he was in
the traffic department. In his
spare time, he worked out inn
provements on a bicycle chain
and spr0cket. That brought him
in touch with bicycle manufac-
turers and at last he was on the
main line-and 1t wasn't the
Lackawanna. It was a wide,
paved highway to millions in the
invention Of automobile and avi-
alton devices whose only dead
end was real estate.
OF Swedish ancestry, son of a Mo-
line, ILL.,, Methodist minister, ne
packed a copy of Schopenhauer in
his pocket when he was a messenger
boy. In those days, he wolfed Hux-
ley, Darwin, Marx, Tyndall, Wallace
and Spencer, calling himself So
cialist in his earlier years. Never
still a minute, he is buoyant and
resilient at 81, and his friends shrug
off this bankruptcy business as Just
short detour from the main road.
CALTY, laconic, William Allan
- Nelson, rounding three score
years and ten, retires with this
years graduating class as president
~, of Smith col
The Groves of lege. Rarely
Academe Laud does any pass
Retiring Prexy ing prey get
such a hand
from students and faculty. Some
what in the picture of Stringfellow
Barr Of st. Johns, and Maynard
Hutchins Of Chicago, he has put over
education on its merits. He has been
first scholar and secondly an ad-
ministrator, but has fired SO much
enthusiasm that administration has
pretty much taken care of itself.
Tho University Of Edinburgh
and Harvard passed ON to him
the fame Of the great Elizabeth
ans. Merry eyes-little white
beard-resonant laugh-with a
surgically incisive mind-he has
been to the Smith undergradu.
ates blend Of Chaucer, Shakes
peare and Erasmus
said immortals didn't smoke big
cigars. He takes q bow from
all the groves Of academe.
TOScANIN1 was so pleased with
! tie designed by Mrs. Malcolm
D. Whitman, former Countess Luz
ella Mara de vescovi, that he had
Woman Designs made for each
Styles for Men; of the 90 mem
They Like 'Em bers of his: or
chestra. That
started her designing ties for Doug
las Fairbanks ST., Noel Coward,
Count Andy Robilant, ct al. One
hing led to another, and now Mrs.
Whitman returns from Europe as
the only woman couturier for men.
altar study Of the latest in mems
styles on the continent.
Her ancestors were members
e the council Of ten Of the vene.
tian republic. One Of them mar.
RED the painter Tintoretto. be-
Quoathlng . sensitiveness =
fhbrics and color, no doubt.
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