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Died. First Lieut. Augustus Van Cortlandt III, 22, only son of Manhattan socialite Augustus Van Cortlandt Jr., 51, who thus became the last surviving male of his famed old New York family (Dutch-born Olaf Van Cortlandt emigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1638), which once owned 83,000 acres of New York City and Westchester County (including the Bronx' huge, sprawling Van Cortlandt Park which was sold to the city in 1889); of wounds received in battle in Germany...
...Cried Augustus, in Slovenly Peter: "I will not, will not eat my soup"-and gradually wasted away to death. Augustus, it now appears, was a psychoneurotic case. In the current Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Lieut. Richard Wallen, U.S.N.R., tells of his Augustan researches at the Marine base at Parris Island, S.C. He asked groups of normal servicemen and groups of neurotics about to be discharged which foods they disliked, which ones they would actually refuse to eat. His discovery: while the normal men declared themselves willing to eat even the foods they disliked, the neurotics recoiled with tight...
John D. Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller Sr. was "still a dapper, youngish man with cordial American manners," when Santayana watched Queen Victoria's Jubilee procession with him. But when Santayana visited his friend Charles Augustus Strong (a Rockefeller son-in-law) at Rockefeller's house in Lakewood, N.J., the tycoon had aged, lost his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, and wore a pepper & salt wig decidedly too small for him. Rockefeller asked him the population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they...
Trier was founded, as Augusta Treverorum, in 14 B.C. by the Emperor Augustus, became the chief city of the Gallic tribe of Treveri. Because of its strategic location, Diocletian made Augusta Treverorum an important provincial capital. Constantine the Great beautified it. His mother, Empress Saint Helena, presented it with the "Holy Coat" or Seamless Tunic of Christ, which remains to this day the chief treasure of Trier's 4th Century cathedral. On the other hand, Trier is also the birthplace of Karl Marx. The Nazis set up a printing establishment in his house, then Allied bombs destroyed...
...Show (by Ruth Goodman and Augustus Goetz; produced by Jed Harris) concerns a middle-aged widower and his daughter (Frank Conroy & Constance Cummings) who run an art gallery. Attractive and sought after, the girl is indifferent to other men because she is pathologically attached to her father. The father tries to cut the cord between them; the girl holds tight...