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...years ago a shy, white-thatched little man with drooping mustaches and a twinkle in his eye went to Chicago to exhibit his best beef cattle in the International Life Stock Exposition. His Briarcliff Thickset, a sleek black Aberdeen Angus, was named grand champion steer. Oakleigh Thorne, gentleman farmer, was pleased as Punch. A retired capitalist, a onetime president of Manhattan's Corporation Trust Co., he had been raising cattle since 1918 when he bought a 4,000 acre farm in Dutchess County, N. Y. Eastern dairymen had pooh-poohed the idea of large-scale beef cattle raising...
...centre of the arena to judge the champion steer. In the ring were four finalists-a Hereford, a Shorthorn, two Anguses. One of the Anguses belonged to Oakleigh Thorne. Mr. Thorne could not forget that no individual had ever won the championship twice, that his entry in the ring, Briarcliff Model, was heavier (1,217 Ib.) than was nowadays popular. Judge Biggar passed his sensitive hands over well-meated ribs, examined shoulders, circled again & again. Finally he pointed to Briarcliff Model. There was applause. By now Farmer Thorne was an upstart Eastern breeder no longer. Technicians talked of "new contributions...
Last week, Dr. Buchman and his 59 Group workers were well started on a great U. S. push. It had begun with a meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a luncheon to the Press, a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. To anyone who recalled how that stalwart Presbyterian John Grier Hibben drove Buchmanism off the Princeton campus in disgrace for over-zealous proselytizing in 1926, the extraordinary eminence of the Waldorf meeting's sponsors would have been a surprise. On the reception committee were not only such conservative and ultra-socialite names as Mr. & Mrs. Frederic...
Proprietor Chauncey Depew Steele of Briarcliff Lodge is sympathetic to The Groups. Two years ago all the bellhops, chambermaids, desk clerks attended a Group meeting. Last week the 425 members of the house party, each paying $4 per day during the ten-day stay, had the place much to themselves. They met first at a dinner, with much grinning and chuckling and calling of first names. Then Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker Jr. opened the first "experience meeting" with the story about the unemployed broker who hired out to a zoo to pose in a lion's skin...
...Harmon, N. Y. where New York Central trains change from electric to steam engines, not far from Briarcliff, stands ready a retreat called Meherashram (Home of Compassion) where the pious of any & all sects may soon meet with a long-haired, silky-mustached seer who calls himself Shri (Mr.) Sadguru (Perfect Master) Meher (Compassion) Baba (Father). To his Indian co-religionists the Parsees, Meher Baba, 38, is the "God Man" or the "Messiah." To many another follower he is simply the "Perfect Master." His U. S. sponsors, Malcolm and Jean Schloss who await him at Harmon, think and write...