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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Derby. He was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., whose father had gone down with the Lusitania. His mother, twice remarried, owned a fine stable of thoroughbreds, and young Alfred, heir to some $20,000,000, was champing at the bit for the day when he could spend all his time among horses...
...bishoprics in the States. Never a great missionary church, the Episcopal Church kept Alaska on meagre rations. The Presbyterians and Roman Catholics kept larger staffs in the territory. But although Alaska's baptized Episcopalians number only 6,360, Bishop Rowe could say that his church has "a prestige among the people of Alaska which is not enjoyed by the other communions." He plans to return to Alaska in January, to be among the Indians whose faith he admires. They will creep to church on hands & knees, against bitter winds which would blow a man down. "White people," says Bishop...
Precise and tall among the nondescript brownstones off Manhattan's Gramercy Park stands the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, founded 23 years ago by an earnest laryngologist with the neat name of James Sonnett Greene. The hospital cannot pretend to serve all the 13,000,000 afflicted with speech disorders in the U. S., but it does its bit. In its time it has helped some 30,000, has guided a national move toward unfettered speech, once inaugurated a campaign which has pretty much driven stuttering comedians from the cinema. Its Ephphatha Club, named for the command ("be opened...
...mess Dr. Greene's clinic had to clean up was the havoc created among the wartime generation by the song K-K-K-Katy, which apparently started countless hundreds stuttering involuntarily. Then along came the Three Little Fishies, with a threat of a new generation of baby talkers. Against this tidal wave Dr. Greene could do little, but last week he set out to head off a "brand-new piece of villainy" before it gets too far. In a letter to 165 U. S. radio broadcasters, Dr. Greene protested vigorously against a tune entitled Stuttering in the Starlight...
...globe of the world hanging from the ceiling, a map stand, a phonograph (temporarily out of order) with a few records, a water cooler, a mirror, soap and paper towels. Until this fall it had no electric lights, but Miss Campbell raised enough money for that by euchre parties among the parents...