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...Sound, from Mineola, L. I. to Stamford, Conn. Time: 2 hr. 3 min. At 64 Col. Harmon is dapper, bulky, heavy-jowled, horn-rimmed eye-glassed. He is currently much better known in Paris, where he has resided for 15 years, than in New York where he was an affluent realtor. He established Harmon-on-Hudson, the Manhattan suburb where outbound New York Central trains exchange electric for steam locomotives. He is a brother of the late William Elmer Harmon who established the famed Harmon Foundation for social uplift...
...your magazine of June 6 I notice an article relative to the State Symphony, in which you say, "No single city was affluent enough to support a full-fledged one alone...
While long-established orchestras were striving last week to balance their next season's budget (see above), in North Carolina a novel symphonic venture was having its start. North Carolinians wanted an orchestra of their own. No single city was affluent enough to support a full-fledged one alone but in the university town of Chapel Hill a group of men headed by Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt had the idea of organizing a State Symphony,† one which would visit and be backed by several communities. They approached Composer Lamar Stringfield, a native Carolinian flautist teaching in the University...
...charge on which he was apprehended was, however, startling : that he had bilked affluent Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, owner of the Hope Diamond, estranged wife of the publisher of the Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer, out of $106,000 on the pretext that he could help her find the Lindbergh baby...
...week's time the panoply and pagentry that is Boston society will be called out. The papers will run unpleasant half tones of men in tall, shining hats, and women with long, jade earrings. Neat, oblong programs will announce affluent, philanthropic patrons of the arts. New dresses will be bought and new coiffures will be arranged. There will be a gentle, dignified stir on Huntington Avenue. Pierce Arrows will roll up to the kerb and the street lights will fail on ermine and on velvet. The Opera a short week hence will be in town...