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...Philadelphian Struthers Burt sees it, Philadelphians in general have been much like Dr. Mitchell. Citizens of the "spoiled child of American cities," they have always tended to overlook their distinctions as well as their oddities. Prosperous from the start, with fourscore cottages in its first year (1683), at the time of the Revolution Philadelphia was bigger than any English city except London. It was once the headquarters of the Revolution, once the capital of the Republic, once the banking, theatrical and art center of North America. It still contains more trees than any other city on earth, and leads...
...Products of Contentment. Philadelphia's drinking water is notoriously rank, its city hall a $26,000,000 monument to graft and bad taste. But underneath the smugness of Philadelphia life is a quality of repose" that Struthers Burt spends most of his 396 pages trying to define. Much of this feeling comes from the old Philadelphia houses, three stories in front, with a two-story ell leading back to the alley, spacious, light and comfortable dwellings whose warm rooms were made for good dinners and good conversation...
...Author Burt's highly readable history is as sprawling and leisurely as the city itself. It has a disproportionate amount of material on Philadelphia's early days, very little on its post-Civil War boom and stagnation, or on its wartime present. Philadelphia, Holy Experiment is crammed with little-known historical facts, ranging from Alexander Hamilton's love affairs to the beginnings of Pennsylvania's coal mining and glass blowing...
Last week the same officers, on instructions from Major General Thompson Lawrence, reconsidered their stern sentence. While Senator Burt Wheeler demanded a Congressional inquiry, the court-martial reduced Weber's sentence to dishonorable discharge and life imprisonment. Said Weber morosely: "With a revolutionary mind you lose your place in the new society...
Died. Gilbert Patten ("Burt L. Standish"), 78, author-creator of famed fictional Hero Frank Merriwell, whose 1,236 marvelous paperbacked adventures thrilled millions of American boys at the turn of the century; of a heart attack; in Vista, Calif. Working on a salary (highest: $150 a week) for Publishers Street & Smith, Standish never received a royalty payment from the sale of 125,000,000 copies of his best-selling 5? thrillers...