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...bestow such compliments before the performance is not mere idle chatter. The purpose is to indicate what inexhaustible possibilities there are for a large and skillfully trained mixed chorus. For the last fifteen years the Harvard Glee Club under Dr. Davison has made its reputation in this country and in Europe not only as a chorus of high calibre, but as a disseminator of good music. Through the combined efforts of Dr. Davison, Thomas Whitney Surette, and the Concord School of Music, the gospel has successfully been spread until it is now universally accepted. The work of the Glee Club...
...Chemical Bank & Trust, $125,000; Harvey Dow Gibson of Manufacturers Trust, $125,000; Gordon S. Rentschler of National City. $125,000; the late Charles Hamilton Sabin of Guaranty Trust, $101,919; President William C. Potter of Guaranty. $101,069; Walter E. Frew of Corn Exchange, $100,000; George W. Davison of Central Hanover...
...Jarrett had previously named two stocky white Sealyhams as best brace in the show, four of their dark-haired Scottish cousins as best team. Would he switch now to the great pointer, prancing proud and free as a stallion, of famed Fancier Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John Davison Rockefeller Sr.? Or to the magnificent poodle, champion of England, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and France, entered by Mrs. Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan? . . . Finally Judge Jarrett waved the two-year-old fox terrier bitch, Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, into the winning stall...
...compartment Pullman named Glencliff. Two detectives cleared the platform of all save ticketholders. At 11 a. m. five automobiles, one resembling an ambulance, rolled up in single file. From four of them stepped 24 servants. They opened up the ambulance and lifted out not 94-year-old John Davison Rockefeller St., as bystanders expected, but the first of 115 pieces of luggage. Few minutes later Mr. Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs and accompanied by his son John Jr., was driven up in a big, black sedan. Delayed at Pocantico Hills some three months by an attack...
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller must have warmed his old grandfather's heart even before he graduated from Dartmouth. There he dug hard into economics and taught a Sunday school class of twelve-year-old girls. In his senior year he pleased his social-minded father, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., by winning a fellowship which exempted him from examinations and permitted him to dig into the fine arts as well. Just before graduation in 1930 he said: "I don't claim to have sprouted wings. . . . But I have de veloped a growing enthusiasm and appreciation [for art] which will stay...