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...Benjamin Winter, onetime Polish errand boy, continued his gigantic rearrangements of Manhattan real estate by purchasing from Arthur Curtiss James, famed yachtsman and the largest individual U. S. holder of railroad securities, an apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...
Heading a contested South Carolina delegation was National Committeeman Joseph W. ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert, whose illkempt figure (he prefers no cravat, shaves seldom) is a recurrent feature at G. O. P. Conventions. From Georgia and Mississippi, respectively, came the two Negro National Committeemen, Benjamin Jefferson Davis and Perry W. Howard...
...grandfather, Benjamin Douglass, founded R. G. Dun & Co., business statisticians, credit raters. *His old friends of Hutchison, Kan., know him as a ready host and help when needed. Their children attend each other's weddings; the boys get jobs in Chrysler's factories-at Detroit, Dayton, Ohio, Newcastle, Ind. Mr. Chrysler has paid for an addition to the Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina, Kan. In one Kansas city he built five churches...
...socially-equal fellow townsmen, Van Wagenen Ailing, became hard up. Lake Forest taxes were so high that Mr. Ailing felt the need of subdividing his estate for homesites. Mr. Alling's across-the-road neighbor, one Benjamin Franklin Affleck, heard of this and telegraphed: "Such concentration of housing and population is entirely contrary to the general scheme of things in that part of Lake Forest. . . . We left Winnetka [modest Chicago suburb regarded by some as a stepping-stone to Lake Forest, by others as a model community] because of numerous small houses built in our neighborhood...
William Berryman Scott, 70, great-great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was asked by Princeton University to continue teaching geology for two more years, even though he has already reached the official retiring age for Princeton professors. Professor Scott has been on the Princeton faculty for 45 years, has traveled some 250,000 miles on diggers' expeditions, is almost as well-known scientifically as his Princeton classmate, Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History...