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...Flora C. Franks, widowed mother of Bobby Franks who was kidnaped May 22, 1924 and butchered by thrill-hunting Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, turned the first spadeful of earth for a three-story clubhouse memorial to her dead son in Chicago. The memorial, provided for in Franks Sr.'s will and abuilding under supervision of the Young Men's Jewish Charities, will be equipped with gymnasium, swimming tank and complete athletic plant...
...first joint eruption of Henry Louis Mencken and George Jean Nathan...
...familiar cover design of a man and woman coyly greeting each other while a cupid and black devil played havoc with their hearts. Its most startling upheaval occurred in 1914, after an enforced change of owners. Eltinge F. Warner, publisher of Field & Stream was made publisher and Mencken & Nathan found themselves editors. Under that regime many a now-famed author (examples: James Joyce, Lord Dunsany) was given his first U. S. audience. Others who were early recognized, if not actually discovered by Mencken & Nathan's Smart Set: Ruth Suckow, Sherwood Anderson. Ben Hecht, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Thyra...
Eminent U. S. Sephardim include the late Emma Lazarus (poetess), Dr. Solomon Solis Cohen (physician, teacher), Ernest Clifford Peixotto (artist, writer), Jessica Blanche Peixotto (his sister, social economist), Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (jurist...
Harvard Club of Boston. President: Nathan F. Ayher '00, 77 Franklin St., Boston. Vice-President: Leverett Saltonstall '14, Boston. Secretary: Thorvald St. Ross '12, Box H. Brighton. Treasurer: Philip W. Simpson '02, 1 Federal St., Boston...