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...Scots. If Mr. Huntington wants to read Chaucer in the evening, he can take down the original manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, in Chaucer's spidery, faded, careful hand, manuscript said to be the most valuable in the world. He owns the original manuscript of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin "from the ink splash on page 71, to the day before his death." In 1911 he paid a million dollars for three Gainsboroughs. His Gutenberg Bible (often mistaken for the famed copy from the library of Cardinal Mazarin*) is worth $50,000; he has on his shelf the first...
Fattest of all prizes at the Chicago Art Institute's 39th annual show last week was one of $1,500 given by Patron Frank Granger Logan, retired grain broker, the Institute's assiduous vice president. This sum they presented to Painter George Benjamin Luks for his strong, broadly painted, modernistic study of a male native of Cuba operating an accordion. Another $1,000 from Patron Logan went to Painter Charles Sydney Hopkinson for a study of himself and his family...
...potent Morgan partner, not a signatory, declared that the manifesto has been in circulation among international financiers for some time. Wall Street supplied the rumor that it took final form when Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and Dr. Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, conferred with Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at Antibes, French Riviera (TIME, Aug. 30). Of these three fiscal tycoons only Dr. Schacht would comment last week: "The manifesto is connected closely with the recent conference of German and British industrialists in England [TIME...
Hollis also established in 1727 a professorship of mathematics and natural philosophy. He had long meditated the subject, and wrote concerning it to his friend, Benjamin Colman, as follows: "Though jeered and sneered at by many I leave the issue to the Lord, for whose sake Isperform these offices and services, and hope I shall be enabled to continue firm and finish this affair, which I call a good work...
...BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: THE FIRST CIVILIZED AMERICAN-Phillips Russell- Brentano's ($5). French ladies figure...