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Prominently located at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Kirkland Street on the site of the old Hemenway Gymnasium, this impressive structure of Georgian design will house the Graduate School of Public Administration, located in Hunt Hall. The exterior of this edifice, composed of 200,000 cubic feet of Chelmsford granite backed up by 300,000 bricks, has already been constructed...
Died. Daniel George Dodge, 21, heir to the $9,000,000 fortune of the late Automobileman John Dodge, in Georgian Bay, near Little Current, Ontario. Honeymooning with his two-weeks' bride, a former telephone operator and daughter of a tugboat captain, Heir Dodge picked up a stick of dynamite in the garage at his camp. It exploded, cracked his skull and tore off his left arm. With friends' help, his wife, seriously hurt herself, put him in a speedboat, started to drive to a doctor across the bay. Pain-crazed, Daniel Dodge jumped overboard, drowned...
...gets away from his factories, with plenty of money to spend on the job. he luxuriates in a synthetic style exemplified at its cheesiest in the $20,000,000 boom-time Fisher Building in Detroit. For fun, he allows himself to design one house a year-this year a Georgian one. Senior of six brothers, four of whom he put through college, two of whom work in the Kahn firm, Albert is both spark plug and patriarch. He belongs to six golf clubs, has never so much as addressed a ball. Like his brothers, he still prefers...
Seventy-five years ago this July, Georgia readers read with apoplectic rage a new book called A Residence on a Georgian Plantation, the devastating abolitionist journal of Fanny Kemble, famous English actress who abandoned the stage on her U. S. tour to marry a wealthy Georgia plantation owner named Pierce Butler. No Southern writer has ever said a good word for Fanny Kemble. But last week, in Davison-Paxon's book department in Atlanta, Ga., Margaret Armstrong's Fanny Kemble, a sympathetic and excellent biography of this colorful Victorian, outsold all other titles. Elsewhere it crowded the leading...
...princess' 22nd birthday an orchestra was flown to Paris from London, and the total cost of the party was more than $10,000. The Georgian nobleman's comment was: "We didn't think it fitting to spend too much in these times...