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...18?Second national pet show; at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. In conjunction: annual cat championship show of the Empire Cat Club...
...last year became affiliated with the Curtis Institute of Music, secured the backing of a $12,500,000 endowment fund and the interest of Mary Louise Curtis Bok, wife of the late editor Edward William Bok of Ladies' Home Journal, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Great pet of Mrs. Bok is the Curtis Institute given in memory of her mother. Its opera students needed an outlet for their new-trained talents. Philadelphia needed one really first-rate resident opera company. In collaboration with Mrs. Leidy, still active president, Mrs. William C. Hammer, artistic director, and William...
...Pet of his philanthropies was aviation. He gave: $2,500,000 for the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for Aeronautics, $500.000 for Airship Institute at Akron, the same for a department of aeronautics at New York University, $908,000 to other universities for aviation. Chief other philanthropy (with his brother Murry): the free concerts of Edwin Franko Goldman's band at the Mall in Central Park, Manhattan, and their radio broadcast costs...
...three times a week and then asks for certain amounts of it back in periodical examinations. Neither the professor nor the student needs to be more than half awake for the process to go on--the professor may regard it as a necessary evil in the way of his pet occupation of research or writing; the student feels that if he fills his seat and makes some show of taking notes he is doing his part...
...dogs are given baths in white enamel tubs, shampoos with the latest dog soap, are dried with the electric driers used in human beauty parlors. The lounge is decorated with dog murals by Ernest Mills, famed animal painter. The Prince of Wales gave him special permission to include his pet, princely Cairns in the picture. There is a cocktail bar where members may wag their tongues while waiting for their dogs...