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...will allow, are arranged geographically in the spacious newspaper room. In a part of the building which is not guarded as though under quarantine, bound editions from London, Paris, New York, Boston, Springfield, Chicago, San Francisco, and even Atlanta may be viewed at leisure. Be the explorer a genuine antiquarian, he will be shown priceless colonial papers kept in fireproof cases. The contrast between the two systems is discernible. One is good, the other bad, completely inadequate. The powers in Widener have obstinately refused the suggestion that a Hearst paper, for historical purposes only, be kept on file. They have...
...Attorney in 1906, John Nields helped snuff out the Louisiana Lottery, whose printing offices were in Wilmington. He raided the lottery office, destroyed, among other things, complete samples of every kind of lottery ticket sold at that time in the U. S. and England. Because he is a devoted antiquarian, and avid student of Americana, this act of destruction must have been one of life's hardest tasks for John Nields. He left a lucrative law practice when President Hoover raised him to the Federal bench in 1930. But despite his politics and heritage, neither side of the Weirton...
Despite Belle Livingston, the antiquarian New York hostess of the speakeasy era who copiously advertises her concurrent appearances at a neighboring restaurant--despite Leo Beers and his country singing--the ten or a dozen red- gingham-covered tables which have replaced the first rows in the orchestra--"The Drunkard" is not given the opportunity of becoming the honestly entertaining revival which its well-executed flyer-program clarions...
...Wildenstein show of portraiture by command was Mr. Salisbury's first exhibit in the U. S. in six years. On view were Cardinal Hayes in his princely robes; J. Pierpont Morgan looking royally severe; the late Calvin Coolidge (lent by the Antiquarian Society of America), the late George Fisher Baker Sr. (lent by U. S. Steel Corp.), Myron Charles Taylor, LL. D. (also lent by U. S. Steel Corp.), Nicholas Murray Butler, D. C. L., LL. D. (lent by the Archaeological Biographical Society of New York), Walter Sherman Gifford (lent by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.), Eugene Grace (lent...
...when Henry Ford steps to a drawing board or tinkers with a Ford part the years drop away from his thin shoulders, and he seems a different person from the aging man who has an earthy platitude for every interviewer. Ruralist and antiquarian though he has become, the Henry Ford who in 1934 laid out $20,000,000 for plant expansion when Big Business was shivering for reassurances or who boldly announced that he would spend nearly $500,000,000 for wages and materials in 1955, is the Henry Ford who motorized...