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Founder of the present collection was the Guelph Duke Henry the Lion, who died in 1195, left his son Otto IV the collection of gold and jewel-studded relics which grateful Eastern emperors had given him in Constantinople. Otto IV donated the treasure, adding more himself, to the Cathedral of St. Blasius which Henry the Lion had built in the city of Brunswick. Other Guelphs did likewise, bought saints' bones, holy skulls, jeweled monstrances, candelabra, etc. etc. After 300 years of this the Guelphs felt that they had collected enough. Ten years before America was discovered they made...
Proceeds of last week's exhibit will go to a non-sectarian organization known as Big Sisters. Present on the opening day in their shiniest toppers and most brilliant jewels were such latter-day Guelphs & Ghibellines as Otto Hermann Kahn, John Hays Hammond, Philip Lehman. Jules Semon Bache, Alexander Hamilton Rice, Miss Lizzie Bliss, Lady Mendl, Leonard C. Hanna...
...Otto K. O. Folin, Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard, recently received the Scheele Medal of the Chemical Society of Stockholm. He is the first recipient of that medal...
That evening ancient Count Albert Apponyi addressed a banquet in the Hotel Gellert, spoke quaveringly on the life and virtues of Archduke Otto...
Birthdays. The Honorable Katherine Plunket, 110, daughter of the 2nd Baron Plunket, Lord Bishop of Tuam, in Ireland; Patrick Cardinal Hayes, 63, Archbishop of New York (world's largest diocese); Archduke Otto, 18, pretender to the Hungarian throne...