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Taylor was born in Cambridge and attended the city's public schools. His first position in the University came in 1886 as a clerk in the office of the bursar. He later attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration from 1908 to 1911; he was appointed Assistant Comptroller in 1910 and held this post until he became Auditor...
Last week the royal couple (Newlyweds Mary Beauvais, 20, dentist's helper, and Airline Clerk Tom Phelps, 22, of St. Louis) moved into one of a row of board huts-not much bigger than bathing houses but thatched over to give them a romantic air-and settled down to honeymoon. By June 1 Promoter Washburn expects to have enough huts to accommodate 50 handpicked couples every two weeks, which will scarcely dent the application list...
Among the facts in Calvin Coolidge will be found the best pro-Coolidge account of the Boston Police Strike of 1919, which rocketed Governor Coolidge to national fame. Biographer Fuess traces the most detailed account of Coolidge's pre-Presidential career, his rise from clerk in the Northampton, Mass, law office of Judge Field ("an inscrutable little devil," said the Judge) to his nomination as Vice President in 1920. (Fuess contends that Coolidge would have got the Presidential nomination except for Senator Lodge's sabotage. Said the aristocratic Senator: "Nominate a man who lives in a two-family...
...record salesman, any music store clerk can tell you that the Beethoven Fifth Symphony is exceeded only by the Tschaikovsky "Nutcracker Suite" and a few others in public knowledge and esteem. The "Fifth" is probably the best known of the so-called "heavier" classical works. The four notes which announce the first theme of the symphony are as familiar to the general public as any other (not excepting "Our Love" and "Moon Love...
...eyed Milton Logan grew up in Brooklyn, became successively a lunch wagon manager, a janitor, a hotel clerk, superintendent of an apartment house owned by wealthy, impulsive Cortlandt Field Bishop, in whose favor he quickly rose. Realty-man Bishop was also an art collector. In 1923 he bought the American Art Association for $500,000, later got its chief Manhattan (and U. S.) rival, the Anderson Galleries, for another $500,000. In October 1929 he merged them...