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...first Baptist Church, rung out at funerals in Wichita Falls, Tex. Last week, once more, he sang, "Oh Lord, Is It I?" But this time his voice emerged from a record played on a phonograph in one of the Sunday school rooms. "Whose funeral is it?" whispered a late comer to an usher. "Vaughn Ray's," replied the other. "Don't he sing pretty? There's the body up the aisle, under the flowers...
...John Pierpont Morgan, 59, of 23 Wall Street, loom as fiscal gaffers. Yet there are among active U. S. fiscal titans men of a youthful middle age. For example, Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co., is 44. Mr. Dillon is of course the enfant terrible of Wall Street, "a comer," who has "come," a dollar-genius brilliant enough to negotiate the sale of Dodge motors last year for $146,000,000 cash, yet sufficient ly orthodox to declare: "There is no advice you can give a man except this: 'Do your job better than that job has ever been...
...annum. By no means content with her across-the-soda-counter knowledge of the public, she plunged last spring into politics, giving firmly-entrenched Congressman Fred A. Britten a lively fight for his Republican nomination. Chicago society has long since ceased to regard her as a picturesque new- comer. Now the socially registered folk say: "If Bertha Baur will join we shall be all right...
Married. Miss Lucretia Garfield, granddaughter of U. S. President James Abram Garfield, daughter of President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College; to one J. P. Comer, Assistant Professor...
...Usher '04, Associate Professor of Economics at the University, another new-comer to the Department of University Extension, will give a course on the "Commercial and Industrial History of the United States", with primary emphasis on the period since 1840. In the same department Matrin Shugrue, associate professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and tutor in Economics at the University, will give for the first time a course on "Money and Banking...