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...history of the Detroit Free Press, 1931 stands out as the paper's 100th Anniversary. Last week it was made a twofold milestone when five Free Press reporters were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the year's best job of reporting. The story was an account of the American Legion parade in Detroit last September. The five winners, who shared the work and will share the $1,000 prize, are: portly, bald William C. Richards, 46; short Douglas D. Martin, 45 (Sunday editor); Frank D. Webb, James S. Pooler, N. W. John Sloan...
This year's enthusiasm for U. S. painting and its founders moved forward in New York last week with two memorial exhibitions. One, at the Metropolitan Museum of the portraits and landscapes of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, commemorated the 100th anniversary of the telegraph. One, at the Public Library of the amazing wood engravings of Timothy Cole, famed craftsman of the '90s, recalled the days-before-photo-engraving.* Critics left them unvisited until they had paid their respects to the first showing in years of the painting of the Mahatma Eilshemius...
...order that Mrs. Reginald Gervis Hargreaves, the original Alice of Alice in Wonderland, might come from her home in Lyndhurst. England to attend the ceremonies, Columbia University postponed its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birth from Jan. 27 to May 4, which will be Mrs. Hargreaves' 80th birthday. The postponement was arranged to spare Mrs. Hargreaves the rigors of a winter voyage. "Alice" alone survives of the three daughters of Dean Henry George Liddell for whom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), the sombre, pedantic young Oxford lecturer, composed the fantastic "Wonderland" stories. Her husband...
...greatest salesman," who owns Eno's Fruit Salt (morning-after tonic), Pompeian Cream (face restorer) and who recently purchased for several million dollars Scott's Emulsion (delicious white cod-liver oil). William S. Scull Co., the newly appointed sales agents for the U. S., recently celebrated their 100th Anniversary in the wholesale coffee and tea business and were doubtless aware that many food experts believe there is big opportunity for some branded hot-drink (other than coffee) to rival the success of the many famed
...greetings in French, German, Italian. But he talked during the music. Telegrams poured in: "Tell announcer to stop talking so opera can be enjoyed." "Is it possible to have Mr. Taylor punctuate his speech with brilliant flashes of silence?" Next day, during a broadcast of two acts of the 100th anniversary performance of Bellini's Norma, Narrator Taylor was less garrulous...