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...wife was spending the evening in Manhattan, so when Harry Greene, a contractor of Weehawken, N. J., was offered a chance last week to see the inside of "God's Kingdom No. 1," headquarters of Harlem's benign black Major ("Father") Divine, he accepted eagerly. His friend Paul Comora, a process server, was to hand a summons to Father Divine, against whom a onetime follower named Jessie Birdsall had brought suit for $2,000 which, she said, represented savings she had turned over to the Harlem "God." Greene and Comora arrived at the Kingdom, a big brick building...
...wedding in 1924 was not quite so quiet as the bride & groom had planned. The best man, famed Watercolorist John Marin, met the couple at the Weehawken ferry with the Chandler touring car his son, John Jr. still drives, smashed a lamp post and a grocery wagon and fought with a policeman before his friends were delivered to a justice of the peace at Cliffside...
...infant to Manhattan, followed his father into the catering trade, was manager for 22 years of a newshawks' and politicians' restaurant in Manhattan's Chambers Street. Pink & white, still professionally appreciative of good cooking, Artist Young has his studio in the basement of his Weehawken Heights, N. J. home, gets from $5 to $48 for his etchings. For the snowscapes for which he has developed such a sensitivity, Etcher Young bundles up in woolens, leather boots, skating cap, takes along an umbrella to protect his sketching block, placidly stands in snowbanks until he is satisfied with...
...well-to-do shipping broker decided to go into business for himself. Backed by friends' money, he bought a dozen British freighters grown rusty in the Australia trade, reconditioned them as automobile transports. He installed high-speed elevators in his ships, similarly equipped his docks at Antwerp and Weehawken, N. J., carried nothing but uncrated automobiles, saved exporters up to $300 per car. As automobile exports from the U. S. mounted, Arnold Bernstein Line prospered mightily until he had a 65% monopoly in that branch of foreign trade...
Along with Charles Sheeler's Shaker Buildings, Georgia O'Keeffe's This Autumn, Thomas Benton's Over the Hill, Leon Kroll's Road Through Willows, Edward Hopper's East Wind Over Weehawken, Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...