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...holding the imperial fort until sufficient Dutch forces arrived, were caught in the middle. They were criticized by the natives for helping the Dutch, by the Dutch for haggling over the conditions of help. At week's end the Allied commander in Java, British Major General D. C. Hawthorn, proclaimed that looting, sabotage, possessing or refusing to surrender arms by natives would be punished by death...
...when the late Samuel Insull's famed Hawthorn-Mellody Farms went on the block, complete with an Italian villa, John Cuneo plunked out $752,000 for them. In short order, they became Chicago's third largest supplier of milk...
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS Hawthorn...
Also imported from London with Veteran Buchanan are Evelyn Laye and Adele Dixon, the unreasonable lasses who refuse to share one man's love. Both of them pour forth their hearts like English skylarks, both are pretty as English hawthorn. Vilma Ebsen,* an all-American periwinkle, dances engagingly with Charles Walters...
...trouble. But Hellenistic Commodore Patterson brought his statue safely home, presented it to the flourishing young Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. For more than 40 years it stood in the Academy's courtyard at Tenth and Chestnut Streets under ''the largest hawthorn tree in America...