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...Barnett ("The value of a man's service to society is measured by the number of jobs he has provided for his fellow men") must have been thinking of Frank Hague. How we all have been maligning Jersey's "Public Benefactor...
...fact it is particularly like the Hagia Sophia.) There are no chairs, which produces a wonderful effect of space. There are also no images. There are only framed sentences on the walls (like those in the Hagia Sophia).† One of these sentences reads: "Do not flatter your benefactor." The same woman who nodded approval before to me begins to weep and says: "Then there is nothing left at all." I reply: "I think that is perfectly all right," but she vanishes...
...Sydney, a Philadelphia psychiatrist. Absent is the eldest brother, Moncure ("Monk") Biddle. An investment broker, he alone of the four upholds the tradition of their ancestor, Nicholas Biddle, who was president of the Bank of the United States and Andrew Jackson's great antagonist (and incidentally the first benefactor of the Pennsylvania Academy). Commissioned by Brother Francis, the painting was done during the hottest part of last July, which is why "they all look sort of droopy," as Mrs. Francis Biddle...
...will speak in the annual Charles Albert Brackett lecture of the Dental School, established in monitory of the man who was for fifty years a faculty member and benefactor of the school from which he graduated...
...program of the Hofmann Jubilee was not one to excite musicians, it was nonetheless admirably suited to the occasion. Pianist Hofmann is the businesslike, hard-working dean and director of Philadelphia's 14-year-old Curtis Institute of Music. For the Jubilee, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, its benefactor and his good friend, paid the expenses of an orchestra of Curtis students, faculty members and 29 Curtis graduates now playing in major U. S. orchestras, and with the Institute's Fritz Reiner on the podium they played the pompous Academic Festival Overture of Brahms. The date...