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...Boston University, Harold Cohen was summoned to the registrar's office. Two young men seated themselves before the registrar. Both were named Cohen, Harold. Before they left the office each had been assigned a middle name after his home town, one becoming Harold Chelsea Cohen, the other Harold Lowell Cohen...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge? with Secretary and Mrs. Sanders, Major Coupal (presidential physician), secret service men, etc.?took a morning's automobile ride through Chelsea, Revere Beach, Everett, Somerville, Aledford, Cambridge, Watertown. In that vicinity they stopped at the Arlington cemetery to inspect the graves of John and Mary "Coolidg" ancestors of the President in the 10th generation who both died in 1891, both aged 88. A stop was made at the Belmont Springs Country Club (of which Governor Coolidge was once a member) where the President bought cigars for his party...
Such a bald attack upon the princely member of a kingly house was quickly answered. Edward S. Rothchild, President of the Chelsea Exchange Bank, Manhattan, said that Congressman La Guardia's letter was "outrageous." Another characterized the reference to overthrowing the U. S. Government as the "bombastic utterances of a political nonentity." Others made haste to state that the Grand Duke was not a pauper: he was coming with 22 trunks; the Duchess was bringing 100 Parisian gowns; (he was bringing his mother-in-law and a secretary; he had two large bank accounts in Manhattan...
Aldous Huxley, nephew of the great Darwinian, smart, fashionable, blasé, ice-cold, most devilishly clever of all the devilishly clever young littérateurs who make the waterside, of Chelsea inundate all London with lavender and mauve intellectual meanderings, has written down his opinion of the popular music of today. The essay has been published-in Vanity Fair. It defends the thesis that the evolution of popular music has run parallel, on a lower plane, with the evolution of serious music. Beethoven, ultimately and indirectly, is responsible for all the lan- guishing waltz tunes, all the dramatic jazzings...
...Ward celebrated her 92nd birthday by bringing out a fat volume of reminiscences, Memories of go Years*. Still active with the brush and able to receive many visitors in her small house in Chelsea's art colony, she recalls the guns saluting the coronation of Queen Victoria when she was a child of six, the assistance offered her by Wilkie Collins on the occasion of her elopement at the age of 16 with E. M. Ward, R.A., also an artist, her stay at Windsor Castle in 1857 when she was commissioned to paint the portrait of the infant Princess...