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FIVE CITIES-George R. Leighton- Harper...
...task of George Ross Leighton in Five Cities is to restore the old landmarks which civic pride generally conceals. In his book tumbledown factories are landmarks, as well as the homes of the great. His heroes include failures as well as successes, suicides, people who bet on the wrong real estate developments, bankers whose banks have never reopened. He pictures...
Louisville. Hazy and heaped-up, Louisville, Ky., says Author Leighton, is the museum piece among U. S. cities. There are the battered columns of Nicholas Biddle's once great United States Bank: "now the windows are bleared and there's a drunk asleep on the crumbling steps." In the great Gait House, financiers once fought over the Louisville & Nashville; in the lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among...
...statement from the University yesterday, Dean of Freshmen Delmar Leighton denied that Francis Keppel '38 had been officially named to the Dean's staff for next year...
...Dance Committee for the night will consist of the regular members of the Union Committee, while the patronesses will be Mrs. Ebenezer Bowditch, Mrs. Henry Chauncey, Mrs. Richard Gummere, Mrs. Delmar Leighton, and Mrs. Kendric Marshall...