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...delivery boy for a country grocer in McGregor, Iowa, he saved enough money to set out for Yale University, where he was graduated in 1876. A classmate of his great & good friend, Arthur Twining Hadley, now Yale's President Emeritus, Bannard served Yale as a member of the Corporation and as chairman of the successful 1927 campaign to raise $20,000,000.? In 1909, he, no politician, ran for Mayor of New York City at the urgent request of his Republican friends; he finished behind William J. Gaynor and ahead of William Randolph Hearst. His business monument...
Died. Princess Clara, 66, relict of German Prince Franz von Hatzfeldt und von Wildenburg-Schonstein; from a heart attack; in London. Princess Clara's father, a pauperish grocer of Sacramento, Calif., was drowned when she was one year old. She was then adopted by her uncle-by-marriage, famed California railroad pioneer Collis P. Huntington. He left her $75,000,000. In 1889, a famed California beauty, she met and married Prince Franz, went to live on the Rhine. The Prince's extravagant gambling career made it necessary for him to expatriate himself and his wife. They moved...
...human interest story. Three years ago it was Sopranos Marion Talley and Mary Lewis. Last year it was Soprano Grace Moore. All were "poor girls" who had their dreams, worked hard, lived right. This year so far honors go to Soprano Clara Jacobo, 28, daughter of an Italian grocer, who made her debut last week in Il Trovatore...
...with excitement. The colossal colorature took her finale with a flourish, kissed her hands to her public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound. When she arrived home (Lawrence, Mass.) finally she made a very serious announcement, that she too would become a great singer. The grocer father took no notice. There were seven other Jacobos to feed. Why should little Clara get such notions ? But she kept her dreams, left school before she was 15, worked days in a textile mill, nights in a store, saved every penny until, with what she earned singing...
...years Mrs. Struthers Burt paid the grocer, sent the children to school, on the proceeds of blood-and-thunder bestsellers, while her more distinguished husband wrote literature. Recently his literature has begun to pay, and his wife has snatched the opportunity herself to indulge in a little literature. As such, Cock's Feather is carefully designed, well-written. Never attaining heights of imagination or depths of tragedy, it is the consistent story of remarkably convincing human characters...