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Born: Paris, May 4, 1895, grandson of a rabbi, son of Jacob Justin Mayer, director of a dynamite company, and Marthe Rose Simone Dupont. A cousin by marriage of the famous Rothschild banking family, he has often represented Rothschild interests on company directorates...
Festive Coconuts. The Portuguese, during their rule in India, tried to stamp out native Christian practices and enforce strict conformity to Latin rituals. In reaction, many Indian Christians broke away from Rome. Called "Jacobites," after Jacob al-Baradai, a 6th century Syrian bishop, they now number 800,000. Another group, the St. Thomas Christians (membership: 200,000), broke away in turn from the Jacobites, under Protestant influence, in 1837. About 1,000,000 "Romo-Syrians" have remained faithful to the Roman Catholic Church, although they use Syriac and their native language in their liturgy...
Built in 1893 by men who knew the value of that citizenship-Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.), Jacob Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and other leaders of _New York's Jewish community-the Alliance filled a great gap in the lives of immigrants. There a man could come to learn English, use the library or the gymnasium, attend religious services or smoke a pipe with a Landsmann over a game of checkers. There mothers, still wearing sheitels, could learn the language that their children were picking up quickly in public school. And the kids themselves could come after school...
Austrian-born Chaim Gross came to Ostrowsky as a youngster two days out of Ellis Island, fed himself on the fruit the students were to draw as still life, and later developed into a world-famous sculptor. Such artists as William Auer-bach-Levy, Jo Davidson and Jacob Epstein paid 3? a week for instruction, used pushcart peddlers for models, or bearded patriarchs who posed for 15? an hour...
Invited to Sit Down. When Taylor took over the Metropolitan in 1940, the great museum needed a shakeup. The golden age of the great benefactors, like J. P. Morgan and Jacob Rogers, had filled it with treasures, but many trifles had accumulated as well, and the public was more familiar with its exterior than its inside. "My job," says Taylor, "was to try, without causing any palace revolutions, to look to the future rather than the past...