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...Yorker recently published verses by Poet Arthur Guiterman complaining that the fountain statue which confronts Manhattan's Hotel Plaza was in bad condition. Two weeks later it published a long rhymed response by Ralph Pulitzer, whose father gave the Lady of the Plaza to New York City. Excerpt...
...Excerpt from arch-Democratic Editor Daniels' paragraph...
Colyumist Phillips' offering that day was a "letter" from President Hoover, inviting Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of the school-bus catastrophe in Colorado (TIME. April 6, 13), to visit the White house. Excerpt...
...dull testimony in a Manhattan corporation case. One morning he came to court carrying typewritten sheets, which he distributed to his confreres, to all the lawyers, and the judge. On the sheets was an original composition-a poem by Sumner R. Kilmarx entitled ''The Jurors' Lament." Excerpt: The Justice nods, the jurors yawn, The hours tick away. But still the lawyers argue, And the case drags on its way. We came here in the prime of life, The cause of right to seek. But age is creeping on us As we ponder week by week...
...Connecticut (Trinity College), has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a rector in San Antonio, Tex., a Y. M. C. A. secretary in France. Last week he preached a lenten sermon at St. Stephen's Church at loth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia. Excerpt...