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...School of Music. Brother Walter kept his programs consistently fresh and enterprising (even to the extent of sponsoring the first serious efforts of the upstart George Gershwin). But he was besieged by financial worries until 1914 when his friend Harry Harkness Flagler took over the Symphony's deficits, bore them single-handed until the merger with the Philharmonic...
...modified, and today Mr. Grace is paid a straight salary of $180,000 per year. But old Chairman Charles Michael Schwab now gets his $250,000, good years or bad, and when the Bethlehem stockholders met in Newark, N. J. last week, the aging founder, present but not presiding, bore the brunt of the complaints. Loyally defending his chief from the chair, President Grace called Mr. Schwab a "real asset to the corporation...
...glowering while an auctioneer put up nine cows for sale. For the cattle no one bid a farthing. Presently the farmers formed a procession, moved down a Kent road shouting, singing, bearing effigies of homely Queen Anne and handsome Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. In the procession donkeys bore such placards as: "Queen Anne's Dead!" "The Parsons' Feet Have Been Under Our Table Too Long," "The Tithe Is the Death Watch Beetle Of Agriculture," "Archbishop of Cant. Church on Sunday but Hands Off the Farmer!" Spectators pelted the effigies with stones, clods, dung, mouldy mangel-wurzels...
Next morning the Herald Tribune carried the story on the front page, printed the frog's picture. The creature was an immediate sensation. Reporters and cameramen from, other papers bore down on the Museum in swarms. Although it was a female and Dr. Noble pointed out the obvious fact that it was not white but a pale, faintly rosy yellow, the Press named the frog "Whitey." Picture services dispatched Whitey's likeness throughout the U. S. by airplane, started it across the Atlantic...
...corps of 100 secret service men drove them back to a nearby cliff, ripped films from snapshotters' cameras. By the time Donald Douglas' big secret was safely launched on a test-flight, nothing had been learned of it except that it was a huge flying-boat and bore the name XP3D...