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...Manhattan hotel function room. When all the lights were snapped on, a distinguished company, some 1,200 strong, stood each behind his plate while grace was said. A moment later the company sat-ambassadors, whilom-ambassadors, bankers, editors, divines, a general or two ; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson, Authoress Ida M. Tarbell, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Davis and many another...
...realm and he became Viscount Cecil of Chelwood.? Now, in the 39th year of his public service, a distinguished U. S. jury ? Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard; Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court; Dr. James R. Angell, President of Yale; Authoress Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Publicist Raymond B. Fosdick; David F. Houston, member of Wilson's Cabinet; Financier Thomas W. Lament; Henry Noble Mac-Cracken, President of Vassar; Authoress Ida M. Tarbell ? appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Wilson Foundation, has unanimously selected him from 100 nominees to receive...
Died. John Walter Cross, 84, husband of George Eliot, famed authoress; in England. Cross, who was a friend of the novelist's common-law husband, George Henry Lewes, persuaded her, aged 63, to marry him a few months before her death in 1880. He was 21 years her junior...
Died. Frances Hodgson Burnett, 75, authoress of many novels and creator of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), modeled after her own son; at Plandome, L. I., after three months' illness. She was married twice and resumed the name of Burnett acquired from her first husband (divorced) after the death of her second husband, Stephen Townsend. Her first literary success came when Godcy's Lady's Book published a story which she wrote...
Political enthusiasm is at a high pitch at Wellesley and a series of political meetings is being conducted by the Forum. Last Saturday Miss Zona Gale, well-known authoress, made an address in favor of the La Follette movement...