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...Bank of New York survived the great danger. When a yellow fever epidemic struck the city in 1799, it moved from its Wall Street offices to temporary quarters in the open country (now Greenwich Village), then back to Wall Street. During the depression of 1907, a new customer rushed in with cash withdrawn from other banks and nervously asked if his money would be safe. The cashier merely nodded towards the plaque of Hamilton on the wall. "I judge you've been through several panics," said the customer-and deposited more than $1,000,000. The trust was well...
Sacred & Profane. Mad Lord Orris welcomes poachers and bill collectors with an exquisite bow and regrets profusely that he has only rabbits to offer them. Even the puritanical mailman, who writes religious poetry, gets spring fever so badly that he puts his pen to a theme which he considers "profane"-his wife...
TIME gave the circumstances of his death: "Mr. Coolidge sat talking with Secretary Ross-about the Plymouth place, last year's pa'tridge shooting, hay fever. ... He evened up the pens on the desk. He went 'down cellar,' watched the furnace man shovel coal. About noon he disappeared upstairs, presumably to shave, as so many New Englanders do about midday...
Although the committee, co-chaired by Sumner S. Chertok '48 and FrederickM. Fialkow '51, lines up 198 donors before the blood-letting began, 46 of these failed to appear, and, of the donors that did, 22 were turned down because of histories of jaundice, jungle fever, and recurrent colds...
When questioned about the existence of spring fever, Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, could give no scientific opinion, but termed any discussion of the matter "irreverent...