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When a wise man speaks one sentence in a thousand is meat for hungry newsgatherers. Last week, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, eminent Baptist divine,* spoke at length in the Town Hall, Manhattan, on "Religion and the Modern Mind," landed in newspaper headlines with two sentences on the Virgin Mary.
It has been the residence of many of Harvard's most eminent graduates. Among those who have passed their college years as residents of the hall are Theodore Roosevelt, J. P. Morgan, Jr., and Julius Morgan. In past years the quarters were very much sought for and the records show...
The Grand Duke Nikolai,* the Grand Duke Cyril,* Prince Felix Youssoupov, and other pre-eminent Russian emigres well know where to find many a gem and golden ruble buried and hidden by themselves before they fled Russia. Recently Prince Dolgorukovo, relatively small aristocratic fry, entered Russia in disguise to retrieve...
In 1926, 47 new buildings reached up to Manhattan skies out of the Fifth Avenue district. Nearly all are strident homes of commerce. But the most beautiful is the new Aeolian Hall dedicated to music. So recently decreed the Fifth Avenue Association, wherefore its president, Colonel Michael Friedsam, (also president...
The name of two brothers Van Sweringen is accented in countless columns dealing with rail mergers, gigantic, planned, accomplished. Newswriters refer to them as giants, geniuses, masterminds; tell and retell the story of their amazing career. O. P. Van Sweringen was born 47 years ago, his brother two years later...