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...John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Manhattan, purchased, last June, a hotel at Greenwood Lake, N. Y., which he planned to use as the base of a summer Bible camp. Last week, the hotel burned to the ground. Dr. Straton and his wife, who were spending a few days at their summer home at the other end of Greenwood Lake, rushed to the hotel in time to hear the final crackles of the fire. Like Senator Heflin of Alabama, Dr. Straton smelled a plot by his enemies...
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...Greenwood Lake, N. Y., where he was resting, Dr. Straton received Gov. Smith's letter. He motored to a nearby town in vain search of a stenographer. Returned, he promised reporters his reply at 6 o'clock, went swimming in a red bathing suit, supped, finished his lengthy reply, full of biblical quotations. Excerpts...
...write his first novel, The Poor Man and The Lady. This fell into the hands of an intelligent publisher's reader, the later famed George Meredith, who returned it promptly because it lacked plot. Desperate Remedies desperately remedied this defect, but supplanted it with many others. Under the Greenwood Tree attracted more favorable notice, and in 1874 the Cornhill Magazine published anonymously Far from the Madding Crowd. Its enormous success was in part due to the fact that many painfully unobservant readers attributed it to famed George Eliot, whose works it resembled in certain details. In 1891, before literary...
...Peabody was born in Cambridge on November 24, 1881, the son of Francis Greenwood Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus, and Cora Weld Peabody. He was graduated from the College in 1903, and received his M. D. from the Medical School four years later...