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...before the official opening last week, they wondered how to prevent confusion between two clumsily named Manhattan institutions-the whitish New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association at East 68th Street & East River, and the tawny Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (largely endowed by Edward Stephen Harkness) at West 108th Street overlooking the North (Hudson ) River. The long formal names are necessary for legal and sentimental reasons. Nicknames suggested: East River, East Side, or Whitney Medical Centre; and North River, West Side, or Harkness Medical Centre...
...108th Bishop of London, the Rt. Hon., Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, had every reason to be well pleased last week. In Town was a 23-year-old friend of his, Helen Newington Wills, that tennis girl from California. Although she is perhaps the world's best amateur woman player and although he is a septuagenarian, the Bishop and Miss Wills played tennis together last month while she was in England to be presented at Court. It was not, however, to play him a return match that she had returned. It was Wimbledon time. The Bishop, like many another...
...began to buy horses. Last week, four of these-Temptation, Preston Mavis, Myrtle Fashion and Sensation-pulled the high coach around the ring. James Franceschini, wearing a checked suit, a derby, a large cigar, and a diamond knuckle, watched them win the blue ribbon. It happened to be the 108th prize which his horses have taken in the last four shows that they have entered...
...ceremonies celebrated the 108th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth at West Hills, L. I. The celebration culminated in an announcement by the Walt Whitman Foundation of its plan to establish "a liberal college of arts and sciences" in memory of the poet. One of the aims of the college will be to help modern U. S. poets obtain publication of their works. Camden was where Poet Whitman spent the twilight of his life...
Doctor Ingram is the 108th Bishop of London, and when at home lives in the building which his predecessors have inhabited for over 1300 years. The prelate of the English Church is a direct descendant of the lords of Fulham, who were high among the nobility of the land in the days of St. Erken wald, a dozen centuries...