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...something of the grand sweep which might have enabled him in his Wagnerian days at the Metropolitan Opera (1908-17) to sing such hirsute rôles as Wotan and Hunding (Die Walküre) and Hagen (Die Götterdämmerung) with little extra adornment. Buffalo-born, great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Yale graduate (1895), he studied architecture before becoming a famed singer. After leaving the Metropolitan he did Wartime Red Cross work, then taught singing for eight years. He became president of Chicago Musical College in 1925, resigned in 1929 to establish...
...president and fellows of Harvard, to carry out the wish of General Ward's great-grandson, deemed it appropriate that the statue should be erected in the national capital because General Ward was the first to command the Revolutionary Army. The statue will be placed in a new circle at the intersection of Massachusetts and Nebraska avenues. Its design has been approved by the Fine Arts Commission and erection of the memorial will begin soon...
...William Henry Vanderbilt, Republican National Committeeman, Rhode Island State Senator, son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who was the great-grandson of famed Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt...
Died. Robert Winthrop Chanler, 57, portraitist, mural painter, onetime (1903) sheriff of Dutchess County, N. Y., wholehearted Rabelaisian (TIME, April 21); of heart failure, at Woodstock, N. Y. A great-grandson of John Jacob Astor related to three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made...
...assassinate Lincoln on the way to his first inauguration. That Allan Pinkerton formed for Lincoln the first national secret service. Since then, three Pinkertons have headed the agency, made it largest in the world. Possible next president: Robert Allan Pinkerton (just out of Harvard), son of the late president, great-grandson of the founder...