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...humorous publication in America was compelled to change from a weekly to a monthly. Thirty years ago, "Life" was a real force in the land. Its pronouncements on matters social and political were widely followed from week to week. Unlike the present vintage of satiric magazines, it provided in Gibson and his colleagues a commentary on manners that was not merely destructive. For the Gibson Girl and the Gibson Man, however they may "date" in modern eyes, stood as an ideal to young Americans of the nineties. But bit by bit "Life" had to die because it could not change...
...smoking room and afterdeck to hear the play-by-play reports. When the Hochheimer was gone the drinkers turned to rum, were finally reduced to gin before the S. S. Pan America returned to Manhattan having, as Author Elliott White Springs said, "sailed a wonderful game." Banker Harvey D. Gibson observed: "We didn't bargain for a long sea trip but we made one." Others aboard the floating grandstand: Reeve Schley, Waddill Catchings, Allan A. Ryan, Leonard Hanna, Rodman Wanamaker II, Mr, & Mrs, Austin Smithers...
...Anthony 1GB, a member of the Yale 150-pound crew which won the Henley regatta last spring. Third place was taken by C. McK. Martin 3L, a former Harvard oarsman. Among the comps, Lawrence Grinnell 1GB defeated David Rogers '34; a wherry race was won by W. G. Gibson 1GB, with J. A. Fessler 2L second. The junior singles, open to all members of the University, will race this afternoon at 3 o'clock over a three-quarter mile down-stream course...
...Saturday afternoon tennis party was in full swing at Banker Harvey Dow Gibson's home near the Creek Club in Locust Valley, L. I. Mr. Gibson was wanted on the telephone. When he returned to his guests he looked thoughtful. It had been Secretary Mellon, asking Banker Gibson to be in Washington the next...
...Banker Gibson and Manufacturers Trust will make no money directly out of the liquidations. But in return for their arduous public service they will be well-paid in goodwill. Manufacturers, wishing to expand, will be in a position to take for its own such of the defunct flock as it wishes. A reason that Manufacturers is in a position to clean up so much scattered wreckage is that it has 52 widely scattered branches. As the wreckage is cleared, as the broken banks' depositors happily get back much of their $42,000,000, Manufacturers' branch managers will...