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...decision of Cambridge municipal authorities to erect a new fire station on the site of the Rogers Building will in all probability not affect the Cambridge School of the Drama during the current academic year, A. R. Lovejoy, director of the School, stated yesterday...
...revealed by the 1930 enumeration. So proud and happy were the 5,077 citizens of Linton to know that an equal number of U. S. people lived in every direction from them that their Rotary Club planned to march the 2 9/10 mi. northeast to the Elkins farm and erect a marker. The knoll's location was given technically as 39° 3' 45" North, 87° 8' 6" West...
...birthday fell last fortnight) "P. W." is big, erect, a typical Yankee shipbuilder only using duralumin for oak, Maybachs for mainsails, the sky for the sea. He does not drink; close associates can recall perhaps a dozen times when they have seen him smoke a cigaret in recent years. He drives one of several automobiles to and from his air-conditioned office. He exercises in his own gymnasium at home, riding an electric horse, heaving a medicine ball, does not chum with Akron's other leading citizens, Firestones and Seiberlings. He does not invite his Goodyear "cabinet" to exercise...
Quick-thinking Mr. Parke, now 80 and white-whiskered but still erect, still spry, remembers also trips he arranged for Presidents Cleveland and McKinley. Best of all he remembers the transcontinental funeral of California's Senator George Hearst, father of the chain-publisher, of which he still cherishes the bills for champagne, wine & whiskey; and the grand tour of the U. S. taken by Princess Eulalia of Spain in 1893, for which he laid out the itinerary. About that time he was called into consultations which led to building the first taxicab? "not for speed, but to eliminate horse-droppings...
...anonymous donor gave $50,000, commissioned a sculptor to erect a statue of Pierre Samuel du Pont, rich charitarian in Wilmington, Del., his home town. When Charitarian du Pont learned of the project, he requested the sculptor to return his photographs, said that he was "unalterably opposed...