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...stay includes on Monday morning the stated meeting of the Board of Overseers. Luncheon will be held at Vanderbilt Hall, the new dormitory of the Medical School, after which some new discoveries in medicine will be discussed by several members of the Medical School Faculty. The overseers will dine with President Lowell on Monday evening...
...GREENE MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribners ($2). In a queer old mansion at 53rd Street and the East River, Manhattan, murder was as plentiful as dust under the bed. First, Julia, eldest Greene daughter, was shot in the heart in her bedroom with the lights turned on. Then, Ada, youngest and adopted Greene daughter, was shot in the back, but did not die. Then, Chester Greene was killed; then- but that would spoil the story. Anyway, all the Greenes hated each other like poison; they were forced to live together in the old homestead with their irascible mother...
...identity of Author S. S. Van Dine has long been a mystery. One guess is that he is a famed architect living in Manhattan. Readers who like their murders raw have been annoyed by his ramblings into esthetics; but none can deny that his plots are incredibly good. His Greene Murder Case has an almost perfect culprit. His Canary Murder Case has an almost perfect climax-in a poker game...
...quickly assumed that his wife, who had battled her way to the top of London society, would now top the tenth largest steel company in the U. S. Would Cleveland furnaces roar to dine London Dukes? Would laboring thousands depend for jobs upon a distant lady's whim? Truth might again be stranger than the cinema, especially in a company with such a cinematic history...
Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, focus of seven trunk railroads, sent 1,000 of its leading citizens to the capacious roof garden of its Hotel Gibson last week to dine with George Dent Crabbs and to laud him with all their might for persuading the railroads to build a $40,000,000 freight terminal and a $35,000,000 union station. Other Cincinnatians had striven towards the same ends since 1899. Mr. Crabbs, president of the Cincinnati Railroad Terminal Development Co., after only four years of wise, eloquent persuasion, succeeded...