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...Revolutionary War. Her paternal grandmother's family, she believes, sold the Federal Government the Hudson River bluff on which the U. S. Military Academy stands at West Point, N. Y. Her great-aunt was appointed West Point postmistress by President Polk, served for 49 years. Her mother was born at West Point. Her father, Lieut. Henry Moore Harrington, graduated from the Academy in 1872, was killed with General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn. For kindly, plain-faced Spinster Grace Aileen Harrington this distinguished ancestry brought its reward: appointment as West Point postmistress...
...Mendl, after decorating the flat of the King's Mrs. Simpson, was recently brought from Paris in the King's plane to lunch with His Majesty at Sunningdale and there commissioned to decorate this rural snuggery. 27 miles from London. Last week the taste of U. S.-born Mrs. Simpson and the talent of U. S.-born Lady Mendl scored heavily again when His Majesty, just before leaving on vacation, commissioned Elsie de Wolfe Inc. to sweep stuffy Victorianism and plush out of stately Buckingham Palace, redecorate its interior in swank Modern Style...
...nearly two decades the Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit has been Most Rev. Michael James Gallagher. Born in Auburn, Mich, of Irish parents, "Mike" Gallagher was educated for the priesthood in Limerick, Ireland and Innsbruck, Austria. In the years following the War, Detroit's shepherd organized no new parishes, gave the University of Detroit a new 96-acre campus and plant, raised $9,000,000 for Sacred Heart Seminary, invited a dozen new religious communities to live and work among Detroit's 600,000 Catholics. Yet the total of all these worthy deeds has brought the white-thatched...
...Farm-born Dwight Lyman Moody was a shoe clerk in Boston when, at 19, he was brought to Christ by his Congregational Sunday School teacher. Year later he was a $5,000-a-year shoe salesman in Chicago. There he began an extraordinary program of prayer-meetings, social work, personal evangelism, recreation, philanthropy. Short, stout, full-bearded, he became known to the Chicago Press as "Crazy Moody." He liked to stop pedestrians, inquire "Are you a Christian?" Declining for conscience's sake to fight in the Civil War, he nevertheless followed the Union armies saving souls. Critics said...
Married. Francesca Lindenthal, daughter of the late famed Austrian-born Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal (Hell Gate, Manhattan, Queensboro); and Engineer Hans Renz, of Stockholm, Sweden; in Metuchen...