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...Bankers' Club, sat other potent financiers and many a confident layman. They were the committee which is raising $1,500,000 to "Put the Cross in the Skyline"-a cross no less than 36 feet high, "visible for 26½ miles in every direction" including hardbitten Harlem and Hoboken...
...Jimmy Burton, Burmondsey bruiser, on Mediterranean shores. The warm widow whose puny son he is physically cultivating shows her gratitude for favors absently bestowed, by saving him from an emotional cropper over a "toff" (lady). Back he goes to "frail,, wistful but sublimely impudent" Emma Creamer, of Poplar (equivalent: Hoboken). . . . Louis Golding, whose eloquent tonsure was lately a feature of Oxford University, has written with sunny charm before this (Seacoast of Bohemia, Sicilian Noon, etc.), and once out of his Jewish bones (Day of Atonement...
...brides put their first biscuits together we sure could build some fine roads." "America's chewing gum bill in the past year amounted to over $9,000,000, exclusive of the cost of gasoline necessary to remove it from trousers." "A Dumb Dora from South Hoboken wants to know if a man who plays the piano by ear is an acrobat."-ED. "No Predicament...
GRETCHEN SCHACHT Hoboken...
Last week, at long last, all was in readiness aboard the S. S. Ryndam at her Hoboken pier. Trunks were swinging to the hold. Librarian Stevens (Williams College) was arranging her shelves (a complete college reference room). Henry J. Allen, onetime (1919-23) governor of Kansas, was winding up his arrangements to publish a daily newspaper on board, representative and facsimile of 48 U. S. dailies. At his home in Cleveland, Dr. Charles Thwing, president-emeritus of Western Reserve University and national president of Phi Beta Kappa, assembled his effects and, with Mrs. Thwing, went on from Cleveland...