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...sooner lead him to be anything but Society's parson. He became (1905) pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan. Since then it has overshadowed many a more imposing home of prayer. It had, and still has, wealthy parishioners of influence. Dr. Coffin invited in residents of neighboring gum-chewing Third Avenue, not to exclude, but go hand in hand, with Madison Avenue. Certain parishioners left. Thrice as many more financially and otherwise distinguished ones came. Col. E. M. House, for example, new from Texas, chose it as his church...
Young like the sheetlets that he has built, Philip A. Payne is a managing editor at 32. Soon after the War, by working on Mr. Hearst's Chicago Herald-Examiner and New York American, he found what "news" the gum-chewers of his country will swallow. Then, the New York Daily News, first of the tabloids, was started by the two rich, hard-boiled publishers of the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Medill Patterson, Robert R. McCormick. Mr. Payne, an earnest, bespectacled Puck, was invited to become an assistant editor. He rose to fame as the Daily News leaped upward...
...than a dime) by high seas representatives of the New York News Photographers' Association who snapped Her Majesty incessantly; visited the steerage and kissed there a Rumanian baby; laid her royal head each night on pillows embroidered with the Rumanian royal crest and motto: Nihil Sine Deo;* chewed gum when assured by one of her ladies-in-waiting, Mme. Prezepie, that in the U. S. it is considered a preventative against seasickness-learned that half a million dollars' worth of antique furniture and bric-a-brac has been installed by the Hotel Ambassador in the suite which will...
...66th hour, the "twelve good men and true" with circles under their eyes, as gloomy as craters in the moon again walked into the courtroom. Harry Daugherty watched them with one eye, covered his other inflamed one with a handkerchief. Colonel Miller chewed gum. Mrs. Miller bit her finger nails. Judge Mack wearily asked them: "Have you arrived at a verdict, gentlemen...
...Pacific Island collection, an assortment of 80 war clubs, most of them previously stored in the basement for lack of display space, are now on exhibition. Grass skirts, hand looms, and shark-teeth spears 16 feet long are also being shown. Some dancemasks made of human skulls, gum, earth, and lime, are a unique feature of the collection...