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When "Copey" reads, the Bible draws an enthusiastic audience. A maximum quota of fifty hearers was easily filled last night at the Union as "Copey," who recently celebrated his 76th birthday, sallied forth once more from the seclusion of 5 Concord Avenue to entertain his first love, the Freshman class...
...Edward Mandell House passed his 76th birthday at his summer home in Beverly Farms, Mass., "altogether too busy" with "international problems" to celebrate the occasion. To newshawks the mousy little man from Texas said: "President Wilson and I never broke. What made it seem so was the change wrought in Wilson after Paris. After Paris he was a sick man, a man in the hands of a bedroom circle. The bedroom circle kept him apart from me and kept me apart from him. My letters never reached him; no messages were sent...
...Oxford, Ohio met the 76th general assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, with which the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. last month expressed willingness to merge (TIME, June 11). A candidate for moderator was Dr. Francis Scott McBride, national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. The United Presbyterians, however, gave a clear majority to Rev. Dr. John Alvin Orr, 59, suave, well-dressed pastor of Pittsburgh's wealthy First Church and president of that city's Citizens' League. Two days later the assembly voted 123-to-113 against submitting to the 67 presbyteries...
President Kerwin Holmes Fulton of Outdoor Advertising, Inc., Publisher Albert John Kobler of the Daily Mirror, Banker John Edward Young, silk merchant M. C. McGill are among the residents of Manhattan's fashionable Upper East Side who keep their expensive automobiles in the Carlyle Garage on East 76th Street. One morning last week they heard that three armed thugs had held up the garage's night attendants, slashed and acid-burned 27 cars, including their own. Otto W. Peters, owner of the garage, said he had been threatened for weeks. He appealed to police and the District Attorney...
...invading Mohammedans at the siege of Malta in 1565. Later they admitted members of the European nobility into their order. Last week the Knights of Malta, still flourishing, gathered in Rome to elect a Grand Master, after forswearing "hate, fear, love and hope of gain." This Grand Master, 76th since the order was founded in the nth Century, will enjoy the status of a Prince and, as head of a sovereign order be entitled to send diplomatic representatives to foreign courts. The new Grand Master elected: Prince Ludovico Chigi-Albani della Rovere...