Word: elders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., arty elder son of Motorman Chrysler; to Marguerite ("Peggy") Sykes, Manhattan socialite daughter of the late Broker Waiter H. Sykes...
Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest, Helen Keller, Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, Boston's onetime Mayor Malcolm Nichols, Glass Manufacturer Raymond Pitcairn, the family of Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, the shades of the elder Henry James, the late Financial Publisher Clarence W. Barren all hold one thing in common - a belief in the theological doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg. They find solace in the Swedenborgian service, which resembles the Anglican, in the Swedenborgian belief in immediate judgment after death, and they experience exhilaration in contact with one of the most versatile scientific minds the world ever knew. Last...
After a few years the elder Fung, U. S. born, revisited his ancestral village of Keu Kong near Canton. With him went the adopted white child to be reared in China by Fung's wife, Tan See. Eight years ago Fung's savings ran out, so he returned to the U. S. and the chop suey business. But his white son remained in China...
Many times the elder Fung hinted by letter that he would like his white son to be with him but every time the boy would reply in exquisite Cantonese that he preferred to remain with his honorable mother and his cherished sister, Su Hung...
Then a bus line was put through to Keu Kong, and young Fung Kwok-keung took to hanging around the bus depot, developed a vast interest in things mechanical. Mechanics made him think of America. So he let the elder Fung know and his journey to the U. S. was arranged. Hounded by reporters from the time he docked in Vancouver until he stepped off a train in Manhattan, Fung Kwok-keung, unable to speak a word of English, threw himself weeping into his father's arms...