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...farewell party for Guinan & Gang in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Paris.? This was the first, the only Guinan party at which there were no "suckers." No guest paid a cent. Guinan & Gang furnished mirth, French Line chefs a buffet supper. Curfew was at 2 a. m., earliest ever for a Guinan party. The Belmontized farewell had the effect of toning-up Guinan & Gang, but aboard the Paris her kids did a dance ("charity concert") in which each carried two fans. To the eyes of three clergymen passengers, who protested (afterward), it seemed that the fans were the kids...
...such as the late Arthur B. Davies, actors like Walter Hampden, Ruth Draper, Ethel Barrymore, and many a musician attended her formal, wineless soirees. By 1913 she was helping organize the historic exhibition in Manhattan's Squadron "A" Armory which introduced a continent to Modernism. One of the earliest collectors of modern paintings, in 1929 she was co-founder (with Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller and Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan) of the Museum of Modern Art, to which she bequeathed almost all that she had bought, pruned, guarded. A loan exhibition of her good friend and adviser Artist Davies hung...
...persons were admitted but freemasons initiated in the craft's mysteries, which included not only sure means of identification but technical secrets. Scottish and Irish lodges were formed, remain distinct type parents of lodges everywhere today. Minutes and "charges" to neophytes were written down, the date of the earliest preserved being approximately fixed...
...William H. Vanderbilt's recent success in finding out by means of X-ray that she would have twins- (TIME, Feb. 16). Hereafter Lloyd's will ensure against twins, triplets or other multiple births at the new high rate only if a policy is sought in earliest stages. "Much of our business of this character," said Lloyd's spokesman, "comes from the United States. We write these policies as an accommodation to clients, not as part of our regular business...
...land. About the same number of institutions broadcast over commercial stations. Year ago an Advisory Committee on Education by Radio, appointed by Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, reported that 15.2% of all the Nation's broadcasting "appeared" to have an educational purpose. One of the earliest to broadcast was the University of Iowa, which began in 1914, long before radio telephony was perfected. Now many an institution, mostly in the Middle and Far West, gives courses ranging from Low German (University of South Dakota) to Astronomy (Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio). Some of the courses...