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...Prince stayed at the official home of Sir Edward W. M. Grigg, Governor of Kenya, over which presides Arabella, a pet crane...
Manhattan thinks well of Willem Mengelberg. In Holland, where he is conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, he is a great man, travels on a diplomatic passport, is the pet ambassador of goodwill. With the Philharmonic he has established himself as a careful, conscientious leader with a fine flair for effects and fire enough to achieve them. His Wagner is weak as are most of his operatic undertakings but his classics, especially the German, are excellent, his Strauss supreme. He ranks high with the world's great conductors; not so high, however, as to be included in the lobby debates...
...Senator, to give Senator Shipstead a clear field. "The Swedes and Norwegians," explained Correspondent Gilbert, "have been 'Yon-Yonsoned' into a state of mind in which they are ready to vote for Al Smith as a person on whom the original-stock American looks down." Senator Shipstead, pet of the "Yon-Yonson" voters, appeared with the Nominee in St. Paul but did not commit himself. The report that he was "hurt" followed the Nominee's neglect to mention what the Senator had done to get a Federal barge service on Minnesota's end of the Mississippi...
...William J. Donovan, assistant to Attorney General Sargent, went respectfully to the President to announce that he had persuaded Dutch, British and other monopolists of quinine not to restrain their U. S. trade (see p. 39). ¶ Rob Roy, seven, President Coolidge's white collie, and personal pet, died in Walter Reed hospital. Prudence Prim, Rob Roy's companion, died last summer in the Black Hills...
Tucked away in the alphabetical list of directors in agate type was the name, John D. Rockefeller III. Ignorant of one of the pet Rockefeller philanthropies, a superficial observer might wonder why a Rockefeller, a Herbert Lee Pratt (Standard Oil), a Henry Elliott Cooper (Equitable Trust Co.). should be interested in a comparatively puny bank whose capital was announced as $500,000, whose declared purpose was to serve Harlem's Negroes...