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...According to the program, the dress was donated by Saks, 34th Street, Manhattan department store...
...night last week a cosmopolitan group of well-groomed gentlemen and their ladies sat down for a long and pleasant dinner. No ordinary meal was this. Eleven years ago to the very night Lucius Boomer played host to the same group in his old Waldorf-Astoria down on 34th Street. Now in his bigger & better Waldorf on Park Avenue Mr. Boomer was again entertaining the officers and executive committee of the International Hotel Alliance...
Died. Franklin Simon, 69, founder of Franklin Simon & Co. big Manhattan department store; of uremic poisoning; in Purchase, N. Y. He was one of the first Manhattan merchants to guess that Fifth Avenue above 34th street would be a fashionable shopping district, to offer Paris styles at comparatively low prices. Said the New York Times: "One thought . . . forces itself to the front of the mind in surveying the rise of a business like that built by Mr. Simon. It would have been impossible if he had been hampered at every step by government regulation and meddlesomeness. What need of imposing...
Mount Holyoke, at small South Hadley, Mass. (pop. 6,773), last week began its 34th year under the presidency of Mary Emma Woolley, 71, famed feminist and warrior for peace who crowned her labors in 1932 as the only U. S. woman delegate to the unsuccessful Geneva Disarmament Conference. Standing erect and impressive in academic gown before 226 freshmen and 704 upperclassmen, large, florid President Woolley announced: "Cynicism and pessimism are oldfashioned, as oldfashioned, I suspect, as human nature itself...
...Barren, the only famed Jewish golf professional in the U. S., had Gene Sarazen, defending champion, 2 down at the 28th hole. Sarazen got birdies on the next two holes to square the match, then got a birdie 3 at the 33rd. sank a 15-ft. putt at the 34th to win 3 up. Walter Hagen scored a 68 in his first round against Densmore Shute, British Open champion in 1933. Shute won the match on the 15th green in the afternoon. He had played 98 holes in 28 under par by the time he was eliminated in the semi...