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...mixing certificates. One flipped to the floor, started to roll away. School officials bumped their heads in the scramble to retrieve it. The waiting line bunched, surged. The portly trustee apologized to the diploma's recipient. "Congratulations," said he hoarsely for the 343rd time. He pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his brow, turned to the diploma hander. "Nearly finished?" he whispered. "Almost," whispered the diploma hander. Finally the 386th & last student bobbed up, got his handshake, his grin, his congratulation, his diploma. Sighing relief, Trustee J. Pierpont Morgan sat down...
...tall, lean minister sat in a Manhattan church one night last week, weeping gently into a handkerchief and bowing his bald head over a bouquet of yellow roses. What moved Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner to tears was the presence of 1,200 pious people in his Broadway Temple (Methodist) to celebrate the beginning of the 25th year of his work in the Manhattan corner of the Lord's vineyard. For three and one-half hours they listened to songs and praiseful speeches by churchmen, municipal officials, businessmen, Kiwanians. Said New York's District Attorney William C. Dodge...
...that some Torgsin prices are still lower than current U. S. prices. Some prices: 1 lb. of chocolate caramels, 23?; 1 lb. of canned meat, 12?; ½ lb. of black caviar, $1.15; a cotton dress, from 68? to $3.20; a beret, 16?; wool mittens, 16?; a towel, 22?; a handkerchief, 3?; a pair of men's boots, $3.32; a frying...
During the entire performance, which lasted an hour and a half, the 67-year-old conductor never left the stage, paused only once to wipe the perspiration from his face, fan himself with his handkerchief. At the end he was exhausted but he could not complain of the box office receipts as Beethoven had done after the Vienna premiere...
Left By Elizabeth Bacon Custer (TIME, April 17), widow of General George Armstrong ("Last Stand") Custer: $101,492, to relatives and Vassar College; a white towel certified to be the first Confederate flag of truce and a white linen handkerchief used as a truce signal by Custer at Appomattox, to the U. S. War Department; a pine table used in the Grant-Lee surrender ceremony, a letter presenting the table to Mrs. Custer by General Phil Sheridan, Custer's sword & scabbard and other mementoes, to the Smithsonian Institution...