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...hotel came to be a focal point for high society, for the world of letters and sport. J. P. Morgan Sr. walked from his home on 36th Street to sip coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany Boss Richard Croker gave small dinners behind closed doors, invariably ordering terrapin. President McKinley fell heir to the Cleveland suite; Jay Gould, Senator George Hearst and P. T. Barnum made it their headquarters...
...vital question of the armed services and the colleges of the nation will be analyzed tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock by Lt. Col. Herber G. Espy of the Special Service Division, Services of Supply, War Department. Tomorrow, leading a discussion of focal areas in world affairs will be Lin Mousheng, author of "Men and Ideas" and editor of "Contemporary China," Anup Singh, author of "Nehru, the Rising Sun of India," and editor of "India Today," and lastly Capt. Sergei Kournakoff, author of "Russia's Fighting Forces...
Presided over by Henry W. Holmes '03, professor of Education at the College, the general meeting on Saturday will concentrate on focal areas in world affairs. Lin Mousheng, author of "Men and Ideas" and editor of "Contemporary China," will talk on China Today and Tomorrow...
...open to all members of the University, but Fine Arts concentrators are especially welcome, since this will be an excellent way for them to become acquainted with the Museum, which is the focal point of their field at Harvard...
...first American boys looked at the Nazi earth, into the Nazi guns, into Nazi faces. The war drew on toward the ultimate focal point: millions of Americans facing millions of the enemy...