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...organization was a small group of nine young players who wanted her advice last autumn for a radio program. Their talent impressed her. She visualized a big ladies' band that would be known as the New York Woman's Symphony Orchestra. With her dark eyes alight she went out on a hunt for more musicians, marched on the White House where she persuaded the President's wife to head her list of sponsors...
Oldest department store in New York is Hearn's, founded in 1827 by an immigrant descendant of an English divine. In the 1870's many a rich old lady in coach and four clattered over the cobblestones of 14th Street to alight at Hearn's for a camel's hair shawl at $10,000 or laces at $1,000 a yd. For 105 years the store was managed by the Hearn family whose youngest executive, Donald Hearn Cowl, kept a yacht as late as 1931 and raced every Saturday with Junius Morgan. But in 1932 Hearn's, crippled by Depression...
...with red-&-gold draperies and great oil paintings depicting the life and works of the candidate. Myriad chandeliers light the enormous basilica. The canonization ceremonies may cost as much as $30,000, which is borne by persons interested in the new saint. Last week St. Peter's was alight, packed with pilgrims from all nations including many a white-bonneted nun. Cardinals Verdier of Paris and Lienart of Lille, and Mrs. Bruno Benziger, wife of a Manhattan publisher, who was there as official representative of the New York Ladies of Charity. Pope Pius XI was borne in, amid cheers...
...that day a Luft Hansa flying boat is scheduled to take off from Stuttgart, Germany. She will roar south and west to Cadiz, the Canary Islands, West Africa, then shoot across the ocean to the seadrome Westphalen, riding in midocean (TIME, Nov. 20). On the fourth day she will alight at Natal, Brazil-a trip which requires nine days by present airplane-&-steamer service. First eastward flight is slated for Feb. 7. A fortnightly schedule in each direction was planned...
...river bank, plunged into the water to quench their burning hair and clothes. Mrs. Latone, aflame from head to foot, leaped into the river, sank and was drowned. Then came a second blast. The shower of burning celluloid thickened into a roll of flame, set nine buildings alight. Perilous live electric wires fell from their poles into the confusion. Squads of firemen had first to clear the streets of scorched and unconscious victims. In one house they found the charred bodies of Mr. & Mrs. George Dale side by side in bed. Neighbors said afterwards that Dale was bedridden with cancer...