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...Dallas Fair Grounds next, where he spoke to 2,000 cotton ginners. Then off on the straight roads through the miles of green fields, the corn up, redbuds already past their prime, white dogwood lacing the roadside woods, the Texas bluebonnets peeping in blue and cream patches, temperature 94°. At Hillsboro, more politicians, cold ham and potato salad, coffee in paper cups; at Marlin, home of old Texas Tom Connally, a speech in praise of Tom; at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, biggest combined military, agricultural, petroleum engineering and veterinary school in the U. S. (it furnished more Army...
...fortunes out of Florida's real-estate boom; John K. Ottley and Thomas K. Glenn (banking); Southern Railway's Vice President Robert Baker ("Bob") Pegram 3rd, who is the city's No. 1 railroader. These and their kind once would have lived on Peachtree Street (where dogwood blooms in the spring, but there are no peach trees). Now most of the rich live in lush Druid Hills or out beyond Peachtree Creek. Peachtree Street, changing with volatile Atlanta, is becoming a street of bright lights and tourist homes, where Melanie would never deign...
These and other reflections, included in a volume which sells 100,000 copies at $6 apiece, emerge as regularly as the dogwood each spring from No. n Beacon Street, Boston. At that address is located Porter Sargent's crowded little office. There he, with an assistant and a half-dozen stenographers, besides publishing Private Schools, personally tells parents where to find schools, teachers where to find work, trustees where to find headmasters. He also places school advertising in magazines as well as in the rear of his yearly handbook...
...embrace a broad variety of subjects. Among the more striking landscapes is a magnificent shot of a verdant Alpine valley under the shadow of a towering mountain head wall. Especially illustrative of the delicacy of Dr. Porter's technique are the flower studies including a translucently vivid composition of dogwood branches and flowers and a superbly detailed picture of a single rose. Perhaps the most interesting subject content is offered by the pictures of a Tyrolean mountain church yard and an excitingly beautiful picture of a deserted wooden house which has become practically obscured by the lush growth...
Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn (N. Y.) Cemetery was delighted. With a professional eye he inspected the plot of real grass, the border of daffodils, the flowering dogwood blossoms, the background of evergreens and the three tombstones that they set off. To Ernest Leland, No. I tombstone designer in the U. S., he cried...