Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Designed by Cram & Ferguson, present architects of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the small marble chapel stands opposite Mrs. Harris' old home, "In the Valley." Present for the dedication were Hamilton Holt and Managing Editor John Paschall of the Atlanta Journal, which published her last work. Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Satevepost sent a literary tribute which was read. He also editorialized in last week's Post: "Long may the memory of Corra Harris remain green. Long may pilgrims visit her exquisite little chapel and behold her simple homestead, still open to visitors...
...like a breeze from somewhere outside New England." This was only technically true. For although James Rowland Angell matured on the campus of Chicago and was raised on the campus of Michigan, he was born on the campus of Vermont when his father, having edited the Providence, R. I. Journal during the Civil War and taught a spell at Brown, briefly took over the sickly State University at Burlington. James Rowland Angell does not like to have it forgotten that he is descended from nine generations of Rhode Islanders and he en joys recalling that since the old Angell farm...
...last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Harry Blotner, young Boston stomach specialist, published the first proof that a heavy drinker does not digest his food. Anyone can repeat in his kitchen or parlor the experiment by which Dr. Blotner arrived at his conclusion...
...died. A kindly teacher pieced out Marlen's book learning after hours, "graduated" him in her front parlor. At 15 he took to newspaper work, liked it, never lacked for a good job thereafter. He reported first for the Cleveland Press, worked on the Hearstian New York Evening Journal, was Eastern manager of Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1912 he helped organize United Press, then edited the Philadelphia News-Post and was proud to be jailed overnight on a criminal libel charge brought and dropped by a hoodlum politician. During the War, Editor Pew worked in the War Department...
Lucius William Nieman established the Milwaukee Journal in 1882, made it Wisconsin's first 2? daily. Long a crusading editor-publisher, Mr. Nieman received a Pulitzer Prize for trying to stamp out the German language in Milwaukee in 1918. Last October Lucius Nieman died rich at 77, leaving in trust his $5,500,000 Journal holdings. Last February, four days after making a new will bequeathing her residuary estate to Harvard University to "further journalism," his widow, Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, followed him. Last week three distant relatives popped up to contest the widow's will, claim this...