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Because Soprano Anna Case declared that she was through singing except for charity when she married Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp., much was made of the fact that fortnight ago, loaded with diamonds, emeralds and orchids, she sang for pay at one of the "Artistic Mornings in Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. Last week it seemed definitely established that the daughter of the South Branch, N. J., blacksmith had "gone back to work"* when her photographs appeared in the lobby of the Roxy cinemansion to advertise that she would sing there this week. But suddenly...
Awarded. Lorado Taft, sculptor, the annual gold medal of Manhattan's Holland Society for achievement in art; the Duchess of Talleyrand (onetime Anna Gould), the Cross of the French Legion of Honor; Joel Thompson Boone, President Hoover's physician, the Purple Heart medal (recently revived Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix...
...other three: Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall, 5; Curtis Roosevelt ("Bruzzie") Dall, 2; Sarah Delano Roosevelt, 8 months...
...only member of the Lowell family that's worth a damn." Harvardmen know that Dr. Lowell was born in Boston, won a silver cup in 1875 for winning a mile race in 5 min. 14 sec.* was graduated from Harvard in 1877; married in 1879 to another Lowell (Anna Parker) who died without issue two years ago. Studying and practicing law, later teaching government kept him busy until, in 1909, he succeeded Harvard's late great Charles William Eliot. Since then Dr. Lowell has almost recreated Harvard. He tightened up its loose system of elective courses, provided...
...Annie Sinton Taft, relict of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft: $5,637,233.41 each to Daughters Jane Taft Ingalls (mother of David Sinton Ingalls, defeated last week for Ohio's Governorship) and Anna Louise Taft Semple: $1,000,000 to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. By Allan Pinkerton, late president of famed Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; $1,040,515.18: to Son Robert Allan Pinkerton. By Edmund Roebling, last of famed Bridge-builder John Roebling's four sons...