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...Field Museum sailed from Manhattan on an expedition to jungly Senegal and Nigeria, where they will track down African mammals, collect rare birds to equip a new hall in the Museum. At Dakar in Senegal they will be joined by the expedition's sponsor, white-haired Sarah Lavanburg Straus, 74, widow of Oscar Solomon Straus, onetime Minister to Turkey, aunt of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus. No tyro at roughing it, robust Mrs. Straus equipped and led an expedition to Nyasaland and British East Africa in 1929, spent last winter poking about Mayan ruins in Yucatan. With...
When Fred L. Lavanburg, Manhattan color manufacturer, died last November he bequeathed $750,000 to the Lavanburg Foundation to provide comfortable homes for the families of low-paid workers. By low pay he meant a total family income of $25 or less a week. Speedily his executors set to work abuilding an apartment house to accommodate 120 such families. Suites were to contain steam heat, electric lights, private baths, gas ranges, ice boxes-"all modern conveniences." Last week the executors dedicated the building. But no 120 families with $25-a-week incomes occupied the rooms. The executors found barely enough...
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