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...note, we cannot make the perfect whole which he, the great composer, had designed. . . . If each of you today will send a tribute, small or great. . . ." Toscanini's birthday presents amounted to some $50,000, made over $400,000 that the Philharmonic has collected since Harry Harkness Flagler, president of the Society, announced that the Orchestra was in peril of its life (TIME, Feb. 5). The S O S (Save Our Symphony) Campaign was launched in Mr. Flagler's Park Avenue home. There he informed 70 likely givers that $500,000 would have to be raised to assure...
Robert Worth Bingham, onetime lawyer, from over the mountains in North Carolina, had never been inside a newspaper office until he bought the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times in 1918. Year before his wife, who had been the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler, died and left him $5.000,000. Last year President Roosevelt made Publisher Bingham U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and proud indeed was Kentucky to receive this finest feather of diplomatic patronage. Last week, Ambassador Bingham was feeling thoroughly at home in London and thinking he was being a credit...
...them back with the quiet signing of a check, the directors of the proud New York Philharmonic-Symphony last week sent out an SOS for $500,000. Seventy of New York's richest music patrons first heard the help cry in the Park Avenue home of Harry Harkness Flagler. Already, Mr. Flagler informed them, there is a deficit of $150,000. The season's box-office receipts amount to $60,000 less than they did last year in January. Without a substantial guarantee to see it through the next three years the Orchestra will either have to lower...
...Flagler and Marshall Field undertook last week to bear the campaign's expenses. Mr. Flagler, appointed head of a Steering Committee, addressed his first stump speech to the likely contributors who crowded his house: "We are the representatives of the people of this great city in an art which dignifies human life; which lifts one above the sorrows and anxieties of daily existence, and which is becoming recognized more and more as an integral part of the development of every normal individual...
...name of Moffett is deeply imbedded in the history of Standard Oil. James A. Moffett was a colleague of Pratt, Flagler, Archbold, Bostwick, Rogers, Bedford- shrewd men whose strength was as the strength of ten regardless of the purity of their hearts. Moffett served Standard Oil for 43 years. He was one of the lieutenants to whom John D. Rockefeller Sr. delegated the job of working out the great dissolution. He became president of Standard Oil of Indiana. And when he died in 1913 he left a son of his own name, already climbing the ladder of Standard Oil.* Last...