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Just off Fifth Avenue on 54th Street, touched by the midday shadow of Rockefeller Center's enormous slab, stood the old four-story and nine-story mansions of the Rockefeller family. Town dwellings of the elder and younger John D. Rockefeller for, respectively, 40 and 2 5 years, the houses were abandoned two years ago to wreckers. Last week the site became part of a long garden. In the garden were evergreens, arbors, trees, wattle screens, and sculpture by Lachaise, Despiau, Zorach, Lipchitz. One fair spring night it was filled with hundreds of men with starched white bosoms...
From and about Robert Alphonso Taft (son of Ohio's sixth President) the U. S. has heard much since he was elected to the Senate last year. From and about Ohio's 54th Governor, the U. S. has heard almost nothing...
...though they were horses in a paddock, pointed to a stolid, bronze-skinned young man. "Look, there's the Indian, Tarzan Brown, who won in 1936. But he went over to those Olympics and hasn't been the same since. Finished 31st two years ago and 54th last year. He'll set the pace-and burn himself...
...strong rural and prohibitionist following. When they went to look for Lieut. Governor Dickinson, who will be 80 next month, they found him also bedded with influenza, at his farm near Charlotte. So was his wife. He got up long enough to be sworn in as Michigan's 54th Governor, first Lieutenant Governor in the State's history to be promoted by death. His wife had her bed brought downstairs so she could watch the ceremony. Ailing Oldster Dickinson, who saw eye to eye with Frank Fitzgerald in many matters announced that he would "obviously...
Last week as the No. 1 opera house of the U. S., Manhattan's Metropolitan, launched its 54th season, General Manager Edward Johnson and his associates found opera's financial and artistic graphs like those of the stockmarket. After a Depression, they appeared to be starting a slow, but not uniform long term rise. The statistics...