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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Billet Doux, 8-year-old pony gelding owned by Ben R. Meyer of Beverly Hills, jauntily won the single harness class for horses under 13.2 hands...
...Indianapolis some 14 years ago, a healthy 12-year-old child, free from funny fixations, was taken to see Anna Pavlowa dance. The child had no notions of dancing, was to all appearances just a midwesterner with an eight-letter name?Ruth Page, daughter of Dr. Lafayette Page, now director of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for children in Indianapolis. But she left Pavlowa's recital starry-eyed, went home and practiced pirouettes in the parlor...
...glassed, urbane, he is known for different things to different people. To Manhattan socialites he is the host of a huge granite mansion on Park Avenue at 69th Street. To yachtsmen, he is the able and enthusiastic skipper of the famed square-rigged yacht, Aloha. To many a rich old lady he is vice president of Phelps-Dodge Co. To flower fanciers he is known for the unique arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central hothouse filled with orchids, whose perfume lulls to sleep and soothingly awakens the James household. But to railroad...
Wags. Wall Street has long had its own private store of wisecracks, but not until this year did stockmarket gags glut the revues and become current at U. S. dinner tables. Upon a tense, avid public, the market break released a flood of cracks, good & bad, new & old, clean & smutty. Foreign visitors, expecting a glum, panic-stricken people, were amazed to find a new joke for each new catastrophe. Among cracks more or less good, new, clean...
...Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave $600,000. Marshall Field gave the site, worth $125,000 on the Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was to be held. The character of the institution was contributed by William Rainey Harper, the 35-year-old Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale whom the 'founders asked to be their first president. Youngman Harper said: "I am not interested in starting a college. But I am interested in starting a great university...