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...tenure of the Premiership, commenced, last week, to function as an editress. The periodical for which she is responsible is a weekly, The Optimist, called in a subtitle The National Organ of the Cheerful Giver. It is being run in the interest of the Margaret MacDonald* and Mary Middleton Baby Clinic. The price is one penny (Id) which is written in this case Id(onation)-one donation. In the first issue, Miss Ishbel wrote a leading article about the baby clinic. Other contributors were U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, ex-Lord Chancellor Haldane, General Sir Frederick Maurice...
...first work was published in The New York Ledger when she was 14. Among her subsequent titles are: Lovers Once but Strangers Now, That Pretty Young Girl, Miss Middleton's Lover, which was dramatized as Parted on Her Bridal Tour, A Forbidden Marriage, Olive's Courtship, When His Love Grew Cold...
Died. Dr. William Arnold Shanklin, 62, President Emeritus of Wesleyan University (Middleton, Conn.); in Manhattan, on the steps leading from the Grand Central Terminal to the Lexington avenue subway station, of heart failure. Under Dr. Shanklin's administration, Wesleyan University doubled in number of students, trebled in income...
...headstone. A publisher sent him a blank check so that he could fix his own price for a book of reminiscences ; he tore up the check. In the days when Edward VII was a rollicking Prince of Wales, Knollys was often the butt of practical jokes. "Bay" Middleton, famed sportsman, had a penchant for catching a coat by the tails and ripping it to the neck. One night, he thus accommodated Knollys, who was unconcerned. "I took the precaution, Sir,'' said he, "of wearing one of your coats...
...down. Sporting scenes, because they contain balanced movement, a living impulse of clean speed, have always attracted artists. Degas, for instance, cultivated the paddock almost as assiduously as he did the salle de ballet. He is represented in this exhibit by a pencil study of a horse. There is Middleton Manigault's modernistic painting of an International match; a series of Robert W. Chanler's decorations on Polo Through the Ages; George Wright's Grooming Polo Ponies; two water colors by Ivester Lloyd of a game in full tilt; spirited etchings by Morshead and George Soper...