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...Died. Ganson Depew, 68, attorney, Buffalo's "Citizen No. 1," nephew of the late Chauncey Depew; of pneumonia; in Buffalo...
...brooded to such good purpose that he hatched some fine, large eggs. In The Fault of Angels Author Horgan tells a story whose background is the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y. Citizens of that place will immediately recognize such thinly-disguised characters as Tycoon Eastman (Henry Ganson), Conductors Eugene Goossens (Vladimir Arenkoff) and Albert Coates (Sir Alfred Banner). But Publishers Harper & Bros, are banking on the book's attracting a wider attention than Rochester's. They paid Author Horgan $7,500 and royalties for his book, hope it will sell as many copies as previous...
...Henry Ganson was an impersonal philanthropist. He gave money to causes of which he approved but never to individuals, no matter how much he liked them. Though it was not at all evident that Mr. Ganson really liked anybody, almost everybody in the Dorchester School of Music admired him, almost everybody feared him. He applied the same pragmatic principles to the arts that he had found effective in business: he had no use for failures, however interesting. Young John O'Shaughnessy. general handyman of the School, had enough motherwit and social presence to get along with Mr. Ganson...
Diagnosing his trouble as heartlessness, Nina set to work to galvanize the atrophied organ-into life. She sent him books, messages, messengers; she talked to him. reasoned with him, finally took to visiting him every day and reading aloud from heart-softening philosophical books. Chivalrous Mr. Ganson stood it quite a long time, then went to John and asked him to call Nina off. But by that time the mischief was done: heartless Mr. Ganson had fallen in love with her. When Nina discovered how much too well she had succeeded, she wept, cheered up. went away, leaving John...
...Prep will use knowlee, Carr, McNiff, Ganson, Breed, and Sullivan...