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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange it is that this "standpat" Republican should have been born in Guilford, N. C., in 1836 in the reign of Andrew Jackson, whose Democratic pals spilled cider on the White House carpets. Then he spent his boyhood near Terre Haute...
Vincent Massey. Born 39 years ago, young Vincent Massey was graduated from the University of Toronto in 1910, and later journeyed to reside at Balliol College, Oxford, until he won an M. A. Well-to-do, he accepted a post on the faculty of the University of Toronto and led for a time a graceful existence. As administrator of the Massey Educational Fund left by his grandfather he enjoys the distinction of being culturally a power. Upon quitting the University some years ago he became President of the Massey-Harris Company, from which he resigned to become Minister without Portfolio...
...Frederic Francois Chopin (1810-49) famed pianist and composer, born at Zelazowa-Wola, near Warsaw, son of a French father and a Polish mother. At 15 he published his first composition. At 21 he was already great among such great musicians as Mendelssohn, Liszt; soon outranked them. At 27 he began his curious and celebrated intimacy with Amandine Dudevant ("George Sand"). When he died, at 39, after having composed some 200 major works, his stupendous funeral at Paris was but a feeble tribute to his genius...
Madge Kennedy in the Blue Rilge, where two-time mammas are born...
...leisurely fashion and produced the quite delightful and mellow first chapter. Then his portable typewriter clicked off the pages without revision, embodying scraps from his note book in toto, even including some doggerel verse--verse undoubtedly as fine as was ever written by any Iowa-born American in the French Air Service. But it is not literature, not until the next-to-last chaper. In these forty pages Mr. Hall describes the fate of "The Forgotten One," an Englishman who chose almost absolute solitude on a tiny island as the goal of life. For some years he was happy...