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Died. Charles Phelps Taft, 86, publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, half-brother of Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at Cincinnati; of pneumonia...
...nearly 50 years, Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati left his white Georgian house in prim Pike Street each morning and made his way to his newspaper office, the Times-Star. Neat, small, white-bearded, he was secure in the knowledge that his was one of the Great U. S. Families, for if Lowells and Cabots dominate Boston, it may be said in Cincinnati that Tafts speak only to Longworths. Half-brother of the 27th President of the U. S.. a philanthropist and pillar of right in his community, Publisher Taft dedicated his paper to conservative, rock-ribbed Republicanism...
...Hendrickson, professor of Greek and Latin literature in Yale University; Julian Morgenstern, president of the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, and professor of Biblical and Semitic languages; Colbert Searles, professor of Romance languages in the University of Minnesota; J. W. Thompson, professor of medieval history in the University of Chicago; Clarence Ward, professor of the history and appreciation of art in Oberlin College...
Joseph Rawson Collins, of Cincinnati...
...when Franz Joseph Haydn's Farewell symphony had its first performance before Hungarian Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, some one had the idea of keeping the audience in darkness, giving each musician a candle of his own to snuff at the concert's close. In Cincinnati Conductor Fritz Reiner often exhibits a penchant for the historical.* Last week he attempted to duplicate the first candlelit concert but modernized methods boggled the illusion. The candles were electric, behaved accordingly. 'Cellist Desire Danczowski's flame flickered, threatened to quit before the end; 'Cellist Walter Hermann's balked when...