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Stuyvesant Fish died in New York of heart disease. A directors' meeting of the National Park Bank was assembling. As Mr. Fish stepped across the threshold of the board room, he fell dead. So terminated the career of one of the country's great financial leaders and railroad presidents. A descendant of Petrus Stuyvesant, a grandson of Colonel Nicholas Fish of Revolutionary War fame, the youngest son of Hamilton Fish (Secretary of State under President Grant)-Stuyvesant Fish came from the stock of pioneers and joined the generation of great railroaders. Born in New York...
...memorable seasons of light opera in New York, including most of the Gilbert and Sullivan works. For some reason the New York appearances were discontinued, not for any lack of popular support, apparently. Hinshaw is a splendid sort of person, a big, cordial fellow, who, raised on a farm, fell in love with music in his boyhood through the medium of a cornet, and who admits that, through all his years of distinguished success, he has never lost his early flame for the little keyed trumpet...
...landing, killing two city fathers and injuring a third official and the pilot. This was an unfortunate though dramatic finale to a celebration intended to advertise the Tempelhofer as the biggest airport in Europe. Almost on the same day at Cracow, Poland, a military plane lost a wing and fell through the roof of an apartment house. The gasoline tank exploded, killing a man ill in bed as well as the occupants of the airplane, and setting the house on fire...
Huge advertisements of Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan for May feature an allegedly true story entitled Mercy. "One day a chilling shadow fell," says the blurb. "While Mrs. Wills, with her two small sons, was away on a visit to her parents, the Reverend Robert N. Wills disappeared-and with him the pretty dark-eyed organist!" Then the ad takes on bolder type: "A story of a once prominent minister and his life expiation for a moment's madness." "A story that never got into the newspapers because a whole city held its secret in- violate." Ray Long edits...
...Wales will leave London on April 27 for Brussels, where he will be the guest of the King and Queen of the Belgians. The purpose of his visit is nonpolitical; he is going to Belgium to unveil a war memorial erected to the memory of British soldiers who fell in the Great...