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When Jefferson Davis was President of the Southern Confederacy, he and Robert E. Lee were accustomed to attend services in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. The most fashionable church in the South, its pews were filled every Sunday with arch, starched ladies, who often took only a perfunctory interest in the services, and elaborately gallant grandees who, with some show of munificence, dropped their confederate greenbacks into the collection plate. St. Paul's is still a fashionable church. Its rector, the Rev. Dr. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., last week pleased most of his parishioners, surprised...
Subscriber President Brooks omitted to state that Mirabeau B. Lamar was also a President of Texas. TIME hereby acknowledges receipt of 28 other letters in regard to TIME'S error, including much historical data from the following: Geo. C. Powell; Terrell, Tex.; J. D. Campbell, Beaumont, Tex.; Boyd Lee Spahr, Philadelphia, Pa.; Nat. M. Washer, San Antonio, Tex.; Horace M. Mapp, Prairie Lea, Tex.; John K. Whaley, McRae, Ga.; Henry Sweeney, Ladonia, Tex.; William L. Sherrill, Charlotte, N. C.; Thelma L. Aldridge, Waxahachie. Tex.; David R. Locke, Ingram...
...Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist, and Frank E. Lutz, curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History, played scientific tricks with a cricket. They played the black bug in a vacuum and in a container of compressed air; for ten minutes they whirled him in a machine 1,200 times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds...
...research in the social sciences 7,490.77Study of individual industrial efficiency and research in the field of business 20,000.00The Charles Sprague Sargent Memorial Fund for the Endowment of the Arnold Arboretum 222.345.00Estate of Martha L. Sargent (Mrs. Howard Sargent.: To be known as the Louisa Lee legacy 83,175.06Mrs. Augustus Clifford Tower: To establish the "Augustus Clifford Tower Fund (1927)." Restricted until a specified time, after which one fellowship to a graduate of Harvard College for study in a French university; the other to a French student for study in any graduate department of Harvard...
Culled from the grim pages of Author Loos's comedy, the subtitles have the brilliance and at least part of the durability of a diamond bracelet, which, as Lorelei Lee remarked in a wisecrack which has since been heard around the world, will last forever. Altogether, in its slyly sympathetic exposition of gold-digging as a fine art, the picture has precisely the delicious flavour of its literary model...