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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...redolent of success. He suggests no garret-dweller, speaks in a deep voice of suave enthusiasms. He is not easy to classify, being proud of the scope of his work. He has done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist Wilson to bedizen her shop. He has designed silver, rugs, furniture, including a modernistic multi-colored bar for Dr. Fenton Taylor of Manhattan...
...system. The New York Central wanted him out of their territory; it wanted the B. R. & P. as a cross-country, north-south connecting line. The B. & O. wanted the same B. R. & P. to reach the eastern Great Lakes. The Van Sweringens, close friends and complements of the N. Y. C., apparently stood by. Only the Pennsylvania sided with Mr. Loree's aspirations. Even so, financial and railroad men believe (such things are impossible to ascertain), Pennsylvania's President William Wallace Atterbury, while fanning Mr. Loree's fire with one hand, had his other hand on Mr. Loree...
...aloof. They play (chiefly at golf) more for physical and mental exercise than for sport. As railroad financiers they are great tacticians, but not yet great strategists. They gained control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley and the Erie; they have gained a share (with N. Y. C. and B. & O.) in the Lake Erie & Wheeling. They have had the strategic plan of making those railroads into the fourth eastern system. N. Y. C. has helped them; the B. & O. has removed obstacles; the Pennsylvania has not interfered, overtly. Yet after four years of intricate crocheting...
...Chapel Hill, N. C,, one Harry M. Sinclair,* baseball fielder, ran to retrieve a homerun. As he leaned to pick up the ball from a tuft of grass a small brown snake, of unknown breed, peeked up at him and bit him severely in the hand...
...must to all, Death last week went to Mrs. Augusta Emma Simmons Stetson, battling, schismatic Christian Scientist who long claimed that she would never die. She died, hiding from mortality in her nephew's home at Rochester, N. Y., of heart disease...