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Died. Edward Franklin Albee, 73, Manhattan theatrical manager; at Palm Beach; of angina pectoris. As a boy he ran away from his native Machias, Maine, to join a wagon show. Working for the late, great Phineas Taylor ("P. T.") Barnum. he met Benjamin Franklin Keith. Together they built theatres, organized a vaudeville circuit which ultimately became $67.000,000 Keith-Albee-Orpheum, bought by Radio Corp. two years...
Thrice has the Metropolitan Museum of Art been notably, spectacularly enriched by the munificent bequests of great and rich collectors. The John Pierpont Morgan and Benjamin Altman collections, both given in 1913, spread paintings, carvings, sculpture, jewelry, porcelains, tapestries, furniture through long galleries for the benefit of the U. S. public. And all last week thousands of people shuffled back and forth through four galleries, two corridors, to see the latest, possibly the greatest of the museum's gifts. At one bound the Metropolitan, already an imposing pile, became one of the world's greatest museums...
...pound class: Dudley Davis Jr. '33, Benjamin Sommers '33, J. B. Young 3L, E. F. Hutchins '30, D. D. Carrick 2L, A. D. Robertson...
Birthday. Benjamin Altheimer, charitarian, German-born originator of Flag Day (June 14); at Manhattan. Age: 80. Date: March 6. Of a St. Louis Christian preacher who was annoyed that a foreign-born Jew had first thought of so honoring the U. S. flag, he said: "I told that preacher that it wasn't the first time a Jew had given a Christian an idea or something to think about...
...business of supplying daily reading matter to every other literate Philadelphian ds not Publisher Martin's only chore. He is a trustee of Equitable Trust Co. (Manhattan), director in the Philadelphia National Bank, president of Benjamin Franklin Realty Corp., vice president of Edgewood Investing...