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Edna Bandler is the white-haired intense-eyed widow of a rich diamond merchant. Until two years ago she lived in a mansion, full of gilt and marble, which John D. Rockefeller built years ago in West 54th Street for his son John D. Jr. She now dwells, and conducts prophetic services for a small band of followers in a lushly-furnished duplex studio in West 57th Street, a neighborhood in which nourish many swamis and faith-healers...
...West 54th Street town house of the late John D. Rockefeller is one of the few remaining private residences in mid-Manhattan with a scrap of lawn. Mr. Rockefeller had not seen it for years, however, and last week came news that it and his son's place next door would soon be torn down. The sites had been given to the Museum of Modern Art for a fine new building to be completed...
Slow, almost tortuous, has been the evolution of justice in the U. S. which the 54th Attorney General now recounts in a readable book entitled Federal Justice published currently.* Collaborator with Homer Stille Cummings in the presentation of the story of the Department of Justice and the Attorneys General, which mirrors the nation's growth, was a smart special assistant named Carl McFarland. Attesting the thoroughness of Justice Department researchers are 1,529 references in the 558 pages...
...Manhattan dailies last week with news of the most notable lease of the year. It was taken by John Davison Rockefeller Jr., on an apartment at No. 740 Park Avenue. It meant the removal, next spring, of the Rockefeller home from the eight-story grey mansion on West 54th Street, reputedly the tallest private house in New York City when "Mr. Junior" built it next door to his father's home in 1912. In moving to the first apartment he has ever lived in (two floors, 16 rooms), Mr. Rockefeller passed up two new apartment buildings he is completing...
...curry official favor, stay in officialdom's good graces. In releasing this unusual photograph, however, Harris & Ewing did not merely neglect to explain the circumstances of its taking but captioned it as follows: "PENSIVE PRESIDENT PONDERS PROBLEMS. Washington, D. C. President Franklin Roosevelt, posing for photographers on his 54th birthday, is caught in a meditative pose. The photo was made a few minutes after he conferred with Secretary Henry Vallace, Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings & others on financing the new agricultural program...