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...Balsams, Dixville Notch, N. H. Ravenous tourists and contented residents were scooping vegetables out of their "bird's bath-tubs," calling for more butter and chattering happily all through the airy dining-hall. Back and forth between her table and the kitchen, plied Helen Albro Park of Brooklyn, whose summer as a waitress was drawing to a close. Soon she would be returning to Boston University to take up her junior-year courses. How good it would be to handle books again after stacks of trays and dishes...
Died. "Little Louis" Fook, 43, merchant, prominent in the Tong councils, beloved "Mayor of Chinatown," friend of Governor Alfred E. Smith (he went to Emily Smith's wedding); in Brooklyn, of tuberculosis...
...Elevator Company. A few moments later the crowd roared the name of V. Biesiakiewicz, roadman for Wanamaker's as he romped over the 220-yard hurdles in 0:27 flat. Smith, an elevator man, won the broad jump as he had been expected to, with Biesiakiewicz third; the Brooklyn Edison Company took the medley race; one R. Jeha of the Reliance Insurance Company upset all predictions by jumping higher than anybody else. To John Wanamaker's a point score of 69; Pennsylvania Railroad was second with 52; then came Prudential Life, Otis Elevator, New York Stock Exchange. Reliance...
James H. Calisch was a white-haired, precisely spoken little gentleman of 63. He had lived in Brooklyn for four years since coming from his native Holland. He was a Jew, and by night, as recreation from his daily labors of an expert accountant, he pored over books of philosophy and psychology. These explorations had led him far from the faith of his race, but his Jewish neighbors and landlady found him most kindly, gentle, a patient teacher of any who sought his counsel...
...Internationally the world is still under the law of the jungle. . . . There are no Christian nations." There was the Bishop of Winchester, warning solemnly that warlike mechanisms may overpower man's morality, asking the Church to create a "new human race." There was Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, eloquent and diplomatic, who praised the Swiss for their peaceful history, the placidity of their religion, their tolerance of all creeds. Upon the resignation of Dr. Brown as one of the Conference's four presidents, the delegates elected Dr. Cadman in his stead...