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MURDER OF A MATRIARCH-Hugh Austin-Crime Club...
...store in San Francisco, dinner in the hotel's dining room. When she was younger she played a shrewd game of poker. Every April her 50-odd children, grandchildren and in-laws assemble for her birthday party, to which the St. Francis contributes a tremendous cake.* This April Matriarch Magnin will have a particularly happy birthday: in its 1935 annual report published last week, Magnin's showed sales of $8,900,000 and profits of $372,000-best year since...
Died. Mrs. Mary Hone Ogden Adams, 92, relict of Charles Francis, grandson of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the U. S.; in Concord, Mass. Matriarch of the famed family, she had eleven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, was the aunt of onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
SHINING AND FREE-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Further adventures of The Matriarch...
...compose the Westminster Choir entered Leningrad last week. All were well versed in the Scriptures and in the art of singing (TIME, June 11). But without Mrs. Talbott they could never have been the first U. S. musical delegation to reach Soviet Russia. Dayton's 70-year-old matriarch had opened her own purse generously; all last spring she bustled about Manhattan to get the backing of businessmen. Her reward last week was great. In Leningrad the audience cheered when the Choir began with a rousing "Internationale," was pleased with nothing so much as its Negro spirituals...