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...President of this Republic, which fact in itself is innocent enough. However, it provided a spicy stimulant for the tongues of Manhattan scandal mongers last May. They hatched a quotation, in which she was alleged to have said: "I never liked that man from the day Grace married him, and the fact he's become President of the U. S. makes no difference...
While in Manhattan, J. Krishnamurti stayed at the Waldorf. After addressing a number of Theosophical gatherings he left, with his lecture manager, for Chicago, to grace a convention of the American Theosophical Society...
...Chicago last week, directors of the Midland Utilities Co. elected Samuel Insull Jr. their president over public utility companies which serve electricity, gas or transportation to 194 communities of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. He accepted the appointment with the grace of his mother, onetime Actress Margaret A. Bird, and with the complacent assurance of his father, Electricity Monger Samuel Insull...
...Einar Nilson, musical director of The Miracle). Only one commentator ventured to suggest that "most miracle plays are dull. . . ." Everyman amused people very long ago. The earliest edition of the text is that "imprynted at London in Flete Strete by Richarde Pynson prynter to the Kynges moost noble grace" in 1509, but for almost a century before that it had trundled up and down England in creaking "pageant wagons." Entertainments of another sort wandered the countries also-the mummeries perpetrated by troubadours and tattered knaves who sang sweetly in the halls of great peers and bawdily for shillings under...
...Washington (TIME, Mar. 8), wrote that he had in custody a dik-dik-pigmy antelope, standing but 15 inches high. Also, a pigmy mouse-bumble-bee size. From Brazil, George K. Cherrie in command of the Field Museum's expedition (which includes Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton-TIME, July 5) announced that a wolf-spider had been taken, so enormous that it could capture and devour small birds. The hunters, of whom Mrs. Field was not least active and able, had also taken glass snakes (lizards with rudimentary feet); millipedes; and a rare species of mouse opossum...