Word: manhattans
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Numismatists were surprised last week when the world's record auction price for a coin was paid in Manhattan, not for the currency of some ancient empire, but for a U. S. $5 goldpiece issued in California in 1849. The coin was privately minted, at the time of the Gold Rush, for the Massachusetts & California Co. Its face depicts a cowboy busy with a lariat, a bear and a deer. For it a Philadelphia dealer, acting on behalf of an anonymous client, bid $7,900. The coin came from the big collection of the late Dr. George Alfred Lawrence...
...Author. Born in Camden, S. C., John K. Winkler went to school in Manhattan. In 1908, aged 18, he got his first and only regular job, as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst, whom he seldom saw but about whom he was to do his most ambitious writing prior to this book in a series for The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, later bound as Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Author Winkler left the newsgathering business five years ago but still sleeps by day, works or plays by night. Closely related to a Baptist minister, it is perhaps through this connection that...
Pregnant criticism of modern Christianity was expressed by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of Manhattan, president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Said he: "The three tendencies which menace the growth of the Church throughout the world are first, syncretism, or the attempt to reconcile Christianity to other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...
...Catholic Germany of today"; St. Therese de Lisieux, the "Little Flower" Carmelite nun who became a bride of Christ when she was only 15, died when she was 24. At present there is only one U. S.-born candidate for sainthood. She, Ann Elizabeth Seton, was born in Manhattan in 1774 of Protestant parents. Traveling in Italy she felt drawn toward Catholicism, adopted the Catholic religion in 1805. She founded the Sisters of Charity in the U. S. Her "cause" (candidacy for sainthood) was opened in Baltimore in 1911. Its proponent is Cardinal Merry...
Charles Augustus Stone lives during the winter on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; during the summer at Locust Valley, L. I. He is a tall, spare man with hair that has turned almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...