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...Northeast Quarter" of Berlin, where tenements are tall and rations short, a worn old woman last year passed her 70th birthday in public oblivion. Ten years before, as one of the most powerful living woman artists, she had been honored with a big retrospective exhibition. Five years before, she had been director of the Graphic Arts department of the Berlin Academy. But the canons of Nazi art were such that, though she continued to work, Kathe Kollwitz had no more exhibitions in Germany after...
...London suburb last week, on the eve of his 70th birthday, Scotsman Sandy Herd, onetime (1902) British Open golf champion, became the hero of the $5,000 Rickmansworth Open, when he scored a 67, six under par, in the second round. His 30 for the first nine holes set a new record for major British tournaments, but Oldster Herd had to be content with 19th place (288) at the end of the tournament...
Died. William Johnson Harahan, twice president of Chesapeake & Ohio R. R., eight days before his 70th birthday; of septicemia; in Clifton Forge, Va. His father, James Theodore Harahan, onetime president of Illinois Central R. R., was killed in a railroad wreck...
Aldrich was a stutterer. As if by compensation he wrote rapidly, seldom revised. On his 70th birthday, the late Adolph Ochs, publisher of the Times, wrote to him: "You did your work with rare intelligence and conscientiousness. Your labors as a critic constituted a public service. . . . You held high the best traditions of journalism and of the New York Times . . . helped much to make the Times a powerful force...
Interrupted by the motor strike, the Taylor-Lewis conversations were resumed the next month in Manhattan while Mr. Lewis was dealing with the coal operators. Again Mr. Lewis managed to dodge newshawks, presumably slipping into the Taylor mansion at No. 16 East 70th St. As a diplomatist Mr. Taylor had to paint for Mr. Lewis a terrifying picture of his board of directors, the men who must in the end accept or reject the settlement. To his board Mr. Taylor was painting an equally terrifying picture of Mr. Lewis and what he could do to the steel industry now that...