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This year Bishop Burton will be 77. For more than 30 years he has toiled with his scant and scattered 5,000 parishioners. But this year he will rest. His successor, who will be consecrated bishop of the diocese on May 15, is Dr. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott of St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicago...
...nearly 20 years Dr. Norman Hutton was St. Chrysostom's rector. He was famed for his scholarly, dignified manner. His tact quelled brewing intramural quarrels. His persuasiveness brought much money to the church which he remodeled and enlarged. Last September, however, he resigned and Dr. Abbott succeeded...
...Rector Abbott's manner is dynamic. Like his brother, Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville, he inclines towards brusque action. Where Dr. Hutton had been mild and diffident, Rector Abbott seemed vigorously urgent, especially when his church needed money...
That was up to last week, when Smithsonian Secretary Charles Greeley Abbott, zealous for his scientists' labors and his Institution's reputation, made a loud and lusty complaint. Those book agents, he declared, were misrepresenting. They let buyers believe that the Smithsonian Institution was publishing the books and making large profits. Really the Smithsonian Scientific Series, Inc., new Manhattan concern, was publisher. The Institution received only 10% royalties, a ridiculously small percentage, which he had vainly sought to get increased, whereas the book agents were getting 25% to 35% commissions. The Institution was tied up by contract for 30 years...
London, March 7--Professor Allyn Abbott Young, famous authority on economics and former head of the Department of Economics at Harvard, died here today of pneumonia...