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...Stanley Park, principal plaza of Vancouver, B. C., stands a stone monument called the Harding Memorial, erected by the Canadian Kiwanis Club. It honors Warren Gamaliel Harding, only President of the U. S. to visit Canada while in office, whose reception at Vancouver shortly preceded his death in San Francisco. But Vancouver Kiwanians squirmed with discomfort last week. Other thoughtful citizens deplored. U. S. visitors were in a ferment of indignation. For, despite many a protest, Vancouver's loud evening Sun ("Vancouver's most useful institution") was publishing serially The Strange Death of President Harding by onetime Federal...
...nineties and early nineteen hundreds were writing books, most of which are now forgotten, the sage of Hollis Hall was writing himself on the hearts of his undergraduates, and now they have a Copeland Club which entertains him in New York every year. Here is a living monument unique in American education...
Sirs: Two months ago, a friend called my attention to the notice in your magazine about my action in chiseling off the offending letter "s" from the Poe monument in Wyman Park Baltimore (TIME, June 16). The statement that I did the work under cover of darkness is false, as I did it an hour before dark, and with five men looking on-all of whom approved except one, who called a policeman. I did not pay much attention to the error in your magazine until recently, when rumors and stories have been circulated about me as a prowler...
Police under Captain S. J. Gnash had been warned and were ready for them, drove them back in consternation with tear-gas pistols loaned for the occasion by the Army Chemical Warfare Service. Soon Washington from the Capitol to the Peace Monument (a quarter-mile) was the scene of seething struggles between Reds and policemen...
...debutante sons" into four groups, the "A's", "B's", "C's", and "And theZ." Although a few indiscriminate residents of cities far removed from the Hub are thrown in, without any particular explanation, the large numbers of social celebrities who live beyond the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument are omitted. Naturally, as in the expose of conditions within the debutante ranks, the comments accompanying each name are more sensational than the actual grading...