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Ellsworth S. Grant '39 is supervising the production of the cinema, while Schuyler Pardee '39 and David Agnew '39 will act as assistants. The film will be of the 16 millimeter size, and will last approximately one-half hour...
Harman Blennerhassett was gifted with some talent for music and a flair for science; a contemporary notes that he had "all sorts of sense but commonsense." At 31, seven years after the Bastille's fall, he married his niece, the beauteous and witty Margaret Agnew whose father was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Ostracized by both families, the honeymooning couple crossed the Atlantic to New York. Hunting for a home in the wilderness, they reached Pittsburgh by post, floated down the Ohio River on a keelboat. Some 14 miles below Marietta and hard by the mouth...
...enormous (300,000) crowd at Aintree were the Prince of Wales who climbed down an embankment from his train to escape the crush; a boisterous young farmer named Agnew who tried to clear the 16-ft. water jump in front of the grandstand and fell in; John...
...locating in Duane Street and lower Fifth Avenue, the congregation in 1875 built a big, brownstone Gothic church which still stands at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street among clubs, hotels and big shops. Associated at one time or another with such old New York names as Auchincloss, Sloane, Leeds, Agnew, Gracie, Varick and Aspinwall, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is famed for its sloping auditorium, its fine acoustics, its old gas brackets and reflectors. Instrumental in founding Princeton Theological Seminary, Presbyterian Hospital and many a mission church, this rich old house of God was once called the Cathedral of Presbyterianism...
...William Agnew Johnston, 86. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, served the 365th day of his 50th year on one bench, thereby setting a record which Kansans promptly acclaimed as unique among U. S. judges. Born in Oxford, Ont. and educated only in country grade schools, Kansas' "Grand Old Man" was first appointed to the State's Supreme Court in 1884, re-elected every six years. In 1903 he became Chief Justice. More loyal are Kansans to Oldster Johnston than to any other individual or ideal except Prohibition. Said he last week: "I have hoped that I might...