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Howard Pyle was best known as an illustrator, in heroic style, of adventure stories for boys. He it was who first made Stevenson, Cooper, Malory's Morte d'Arthur-not to mention his own Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, etc.-alive in many a boy's heart; but he was also a great and serious artist on canvas and in mural decoration. Pyle was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1853, and lived there until his death in 1911. He knew the satisfaction of being an honored prophet in his own community. To his home flocked...
Financiers: George F. Baker, Jr., August Belmont, Thomas W. Lamont, Dwight W. Morrow, E. R. Stettinius, Willis H. Booth, Seymour L. Cromwell, Otto H. Kahn, Fred I. Kent, Seward Prosser, Frank A. Vanderlip, Felix M. Warburg, Paul M. Warburg...
...signed the register with trembling hands. In Detroit, Mrs. Jennie P. Frazer* was married to Smith V. Fish in the presence of her three-year-old great-grandchild. In Manhattan, Saks & Co. (clothiers) alleged in an advertisement that "the best known men in Wall Street [i.e., J. Pierpont Morgan, Otto H. Kahn, Dwight W. Morrow, Jesse Livermore, Seymour L. Cromwell, etc.] are to be seen wearing our sack coats and straight cut double-breasted waistcoats with contrasting striped trousers. "Saks & Co. also cited Mr. Lloyd George as favoring the "contrasting coat and trouser idea." In Washington, D. C., the Department...
...Otto Wiedfeldt, German Ambassador to the U. S., returned from a visit to his native land. He expressed faith in the Republic and felt sure of the failure of Communists, Separatists and Monarchists. He was, however, apprehensive of the coming Winter, in which, he said, thousands of Germans will starve...
...Otto H. Kahn, banker: " I dropped $15,000 in the musical comedy production Jack and Jill, which featured Lew Fields, Ann Pennington, Dorothy Enright. This became known when the producers went into bankruptcy...