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Augustus Toplady, author of Rock of Ages, aimed a sizzling pamphlet at Wesley entitled An Old Fox Tarred and Feathered, which a contemporary remarked should have been called "Go to Hell, by the author of Come to Jesus...
What was in the letter? What had been said at that mystic tryst off the rock-bound Coast of Somewhere? While the whole world cupped its ear, the Ministry of Information permitted correspondents to cable that His Britannic Majesty's Prime Minister had refused an option on 600 of the long, three-shilling (60?) Havanas he loves...
...been in the Army since 1908, Gene Reybold, unlike many an engineer officer, has never smelled powder, but like most he has had wide building experience. Long a worker on U.S. rivers, and conqueror of the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937, he was Division Engineer at Little Rock, with a long record of crack administration behind him, when he went to the General Staff...
Died. Harry Content, 80, "dean of Wall Street brokers"; in Manhattan. He bought his seat on the Exchange in 1885, weathered five panics, sold the first U.S. Steel common-120,000 shares the first day-created a sensation in 1926 when he noiselessly bought control of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co. for Speyer & Co. and a western road...
Died. William Mitchell Kendall, 85, architect; in Bar Harbor, Me. He was a designer of the old Madison Square Garden, Manhattan's Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, Harvard's Memorial Gates, the portico housing Plymouth Rock...