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...philologist who had abandoned a professorship at Syracuse University to edit the Syracuse Standard, which he quit in the heat of an editorial dispute. In his own luxurious Montana Hotel (to which an extra story had been added because "it didn't look good enough") Daly opened his checkbook and commanded Dr. Durston to build for him, there in the sprawling, brawling smelter village of Anaconda, "the best newspaper that can be made." Editor Durston imported two of his associates from the Syracuse Standard and set to work. In time the new paper attained some 20,000 circulation (practically...
...Israel Harding Noe of St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, whose wife sued him for di-vorce last February because he believes that "the only Christian standard of birth control is self control" (TIME, May n). Last week Memphis was given another sympathetic, curious peep into his private life, his checkbook and his house in the Cathedral's shadow. Mrs. Noe's amended charges included cruelty, extravagance and desertion as well as coldness. In an amended answer to her bill, Dean Noe replied in great detail. He had not been cruel, nor, as she charged, had he accused her of being...
...money. For the past ten years dealers have been delicately led to understand that for a sufficient price, the Dreyfus collection was for sale. There was no lack of offers, but the Dreyfus family were not to be rushed into a sale. Only last week, before the potent checkbook of suave Sir Joseph Duveen, did the Dreyfuses capitulate. Other dealers wagered that if he did not pay the appraised price of $6,000,000 he paid something very close...
...holding an umbrella. At length the President emerged from his cogitation: "What can I do for you?" "Have you ever considered the English house system here at Harvard?" asked the unobtrusive man. "Yes . . . too expensive." "How much?" "Oh, about three million dollars to begin it." The visitor fished a checkbook out of his pocket, wrote out a check, passed it to President Lowell. The President looked in bewilderment at the signature: "Edward S. Harkness." Harkness? Harkness? "Why, thank you. . . . Ah, could you lunch with me?" he finally asked. "I'm very sorry, but my wife is shopping in Boston...
...opened up his checkbook...