Show WHO'S NEWS yS aA THIS r WEEK a- a y By LEMUEL F F. F PARTON ARTON EW YORK Vincent Vincent Bendix NEW got on famously as long as he stuck to tinkering inventing and fussing with machinery He did didI I many other Without Wheels things but any any- Its It's No Go for t thing h hI i n g which Vincent Bendix didn't have to todo todo todo do with wheels cams and pinions was just no dice It was his Chicago real estate deals which brought against him the petition In vo voluntary bankruptcy filed in Chicago say his lawyers His holdings were more than including the famous Potter Palmer Lake Shore drive residence all all down the chute in the federal leral district court His machinery companies companies companies com com- not involved In the petition are rolling along nicely They seem to be bc one up on the good earth carth asan asan as asan an arc arcanum anum of security Modern times are like that In the basement of a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York hospital where he ran the elevator he had a grand time taking an old tube hot-tube gas engine engine en en- gine glue to pieces and putting It to to- again He was vas 17 not long long- from Chicago where he had been a telegraph messenger boy An old one-eyed one around the place who who understood understood understood under under- stood machinery had instructed instruct instruct- ed him In the th-e working of the power plant and had encouraged his laboratory work There was a close working alliance between faculty and student body Two years later the lad got a job as a typist In a 3 law office baffled barred at first because he couldn't use a monkey wrench on the typewriter but exploring it satisfactorily with a screw-driver screw and pliers But a law office hadn't any wheels and he did bettor with the Lackawanna railroad which had plenty although he was in inthe inthe inthe the traffic department In his spare time he worked out Improvements improvements improvements Im im- on a bicycle chain and sprocket That brought hImin him himin himin in touch ouch with bie bicycle cIe manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers and at last he was on the main line line and and it wasn't the Lackawanna It was a wide paved highway to millions in the invention of automobile and avi- avi atlon devices whose only dead dead- end was real estate Of Swedish ancestry son o of a Moline Moline Mo Mo- line Ill Methodist minister he packed a n copy of in his pocket when ho he was a messenger boy In those days he wolfed Huxley Huxley Huxley Hux Hux- ley Darwin Marx Tyndall Wallace and Spencer calling himself a Socialist Socialist Socialist So So- in his earlier years Never Neverstill Neverstill Neverstill still a minute he is buoyant and resilient at 57 and his friends shrug off this bankruptcy business as just justa a short detour from the main high high- way They say they wouldn't be surprised if he should bob up with something as exciting as perpetual motion one of these days Q S SALTY ALTY laconic William Allan Neilson rounding three score years and ten retires with this years year's graduating class as president of Smith col col- The Groves of lege ege Rarely Academe Laud does any pass pass- Retiring lug ing S get such a hand from students and faculty Somewhat t tin in m the picture of Stringfellow Barr of St. St Johns John's and Maynard Hutchins of Chicago he has put over education education edu edu- cation on its merits He Hc has been first a scholar and secondly an administrator ad but has fired so much enthusiasm that administration has pretty much taken care of Hse itself The Ibe University of Edinburgh and Harvard passed on to o him the flame of the great Elizabeth Elizabeth- ans Merr Merry little eyes c eyes little white while beard resonant beard resonant laugh with laugh with a surgically Incisive mind mind mind-he he has been to the Smith undergraduates ates a blend of Chaucer Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakes Shakes- peare and Erasmus Erasmus although although said immortals didn't smoke big cigars He takes a bow from Crom all aU the bo groves of academe 9 4 was so pleased witha with a tie designed by Mrs Malcolmn D D. D Whitman former Countess Lucilla Lucilla Lu- Lu cilla Mara de that he had one like it Woman Designs made for each Styles for Men of f the 93 mem- mem They Like Em bers of his or or- chestra That started her designing tics ties for lor Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las Fairbanks Sr Noel Coward Count Andy et al One thing led lcd to another and now Mrs Whitman r returns turns from Europe as the only woman couturier for or men after a n study of the latest in mens men's I styles on the continent tier Her ancestors were members of the council of ten of or the lite Venetian Venetian Vene Vene- tian republic One of or them married mar mar- married ried the painter bequeathing be be- bequeathing a D. sensitiveness to fabrics and and anil color no DO doubt She was a concert singer before her marriage to o Mr Whitman Consolidated Features Features Service |