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...Long Island residents have noted a huge limousine rolling placidly about the country. Within they have noted five men sitting around a table. This was the partners' sanctum, and in it for some years the brains of Doubleday, Page & Co. have gathered once a week in conference. A huger limousine will now be seen; a specially constructed Packard with six seats around the table...
Married. Francis Huger McAdoo, 38, lawyer, son of William Gibbs McAdoo, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Wilson; to Mrs. Mary I. Bovee Taylor; in Manhattan. Both are divorced. The speed with which Mrs. Ethel Preston McCormack McAdoo received her Paris divorce in 1923 caused Premier Raymond Poincare to institute an inquiry...
...Revelers in. evening clothes uncorked champagne bottles for actresses who did not mind sitting on the grass. Peasants were satisfied with good red wine and longish sandwiches. Suddenly, at 3:15 a. m., the plainsfolk scampered toward other folk who cheered as a huge, ghostly bird emerged from a huger tent...
With state and city universities snowballing along to ever huger proportions, privately endowed universities have lately felt it necessary for fame's sake, to advertise that their aim is "quality, not quantity." Harvard, Yale and Princeton have also stressed the point that they are "national" universities. And last week Yale, standing twelfth in point of size among the 86 representative institutions included in the Boston Transcript's annual survey,* pointed to itself as "most national" of the so-called Big Three. Taking the data of the classes of 1926 to 1929 inclusive, Yale proved itself Big Three favorite...
...Colonel Huger of South Carolina tells the story of his attempt at rescuing Lafayette from prison in Austria. Daniel Webster orates, in public and at home. Andrew Jackson bristles into Boston. William Ellery Channing, founder of Unitarianism, preaches a sermon. John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy visit Joseph Smith, "the bourgeois Mohammed," at muddy Nauvpo, 111., being privileged to dispute with him in a strange dormitory and to view the prophet's dubious Pharaoh mummies and Mosaic manuscripts, (being told upon leaving, that it is customary to pay old Mother Smith $L25 for this honor...