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...reassure a timid patron, one of the clerks brandished a copy of TIME, pointing to the paragraph which quoted a chemist's report that one sample from the shop contained 45% alcohol, was nonpoisonous...
Other Patriarchs. To be a patriarch, one need not retire into prophetical obscurity. Jacob Gould Schurman is the patron saint of Cornell. President from...
...Pundit, patron, promoter of the New York Antique show is white-haired, amiable George W. Harper, Wesleyan graduate, onetime corporation lawyer and Belmont Estate attorney, rabid antiquarian. Four years ago Mr. Harper had a nervous breakdown, was ordered by his doctors to give up his business, travel, find and ride a hobby. He already had a hobby: antique furniture. With his wife he went to London hunting Hepplewhites. He arrived just as a great antique exhibition, organized by the London Daily Telegraph, opened at the Crystal Palace. Never before had Mr. Harper seen so many works of art assembled...
After several years as a member of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Affairs, he was sent by his patron, Cardinal Gasparri to Munich, where he pursued the pacific policies of Pope Benedict XV. In 1917 he conveyed the Papal Peace Note to Kaiser Wilhelm...
...still have unquenchable faith in Civil Disobedience," wrote spindle-shanked Mahatma Gandhi, loinclothed, ascetic patron saint of Indian Independence, a month ago. "But if India should have to go through the agonies of civil war or foreign invasion, be sure these are no new things in the history of nations that have struggled for freedom. England has gone through both experiences...