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Radio telephone communication was established the last day out between the Arizona and Herbert Hoover Jr., convalescing at Asheville, N. C. President Hoover talked briefly with his son and Granddaughter Peggy Anne, who chirped: ''It's snowing here. We're going back to Washington tomorrow." (Next evening he could have...
Composer Berg's music was perplexing at first. It had all the dissonances to be expected of a pupil of modernistic Arnold Schönberg. There were no conventional harmonies, no set songs. Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff (Wozzeck) sometimes spoke, sometimes sang his lines. Soprano Anne Roselle (Marie, Wozzeck's mistress) had...
Sued. Elsie French and Anne Colby* ("X-Ray Twins") Vanderbilt, month-old daughters of William Henry Vanderbilt and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; along with 24 of their kin, all heirs of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died : by the U. S. Government; for $800,000 in profits, back taxes and...
The founder of Fortnum & Mason was one Cornelius Fortnum, faithful servitor of Queen Anne. For years he held the unique monopoly of being allowed to take and sell the Court's old candles, for Queen Anne would never allow the same candle to be lit twice. In 1710 he...
The first recipient of the Harvard degree of LL.D. was John Winthrop of the class of 1732, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy from 1738 to 1779, a Fellow from 1765 to 1779, and acting president during the year 1773-74. He received the honorary degree in 1773. His...