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...Regina, et Imperatrix. As the barrier was sprung, 16 "platers" got away in an absolutely clean break after only four minutes at the post. . . . The field strung out. . . . Then, on the home stretch, two almost equally favored horses, Troutlet and Mr. Gaiety, had it nose to nose. Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada and Governor-General Willingdon both clapped glasses to their eyes, bent forward, tense, tried to see which horse crossed the winning mark first. Then the Willingdon grey topper and the King black topper revolved toward each other in puzzlement. Even with glasses they could not pick...
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen met in a Manhattan theatre last fortnight to pay a U. S. poet the almost archaic compliment of hearing his newest work and appraising it. They were Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, Dr. & Mrs. William Lyon Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson...
...sprightly ones who pride themselves on keeping up with the latest vagaries of the inexplicably unscholastic. Stuart, Sherman was one of the best of the second type a man whom Illinois University students revered as if he had been a combination of Doctor Johnson, Barrett Wendell and William Lyon Phelps, and whose directing of the Herald-Tribune Book Review endeared him to that dreadfully class conscious clan, the New York writing fraternity...
...Mongolia (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923); Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Yale, optimistic critic of literature; Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale, economist-Prohibitionist; Dr. Max L. Margolis of Dropsie College, philologist and Jewish historian...
Other busts to be unveiled and added to the Hall of Fame, on the campus of New York University, will be those of J. J. Audubon, naturalist; Admiral D. G. Farragut; Benjamin- Franklin; Washington Irving, historian and essayist; and Mary Lyon, pioneer in the education of women and founder of Mount Holyoke College...