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...told that George Ade was one of the Hoosier greats: Riley, Booth Tarkington, the McCutcheons (Cartoonist John T. and Graustark's George Barr), Meredith Nicholson, Lew ("Ben Hur") Wallace. Indianians knew him too as Purdue's No. 1 alumnus, and "Sigma Chi's Modern Patron Saint." He had lived there 30 years as a Hoosier squire, though he wintered in Florida-he said the Midwest had no climate, "just an assortment of unexpected weather...
Kneeling thousands stared hard at two phials on the high altar in Naples' gothic Cathedral. The phials, people had been taught, contained dried blood of St. Januarius, patron saint of the city who died a martyr in the time of Diocletian (245-313). Last Saturday the hard, dark substance was due to turn to liquid, as it does the first Saturday of every May and every Sept. 19 if the outlook for Naples is good...
...famed U.S. Portraitist John Singer Sargent put the whole Sitwell family on canvas. (The picture is now at Renishaw.) "No picture, I am sure," says Sir Osbert, "could have given the artist more trouble, for my father held strong views concerning the relationship of the patron to the painter." Though Sir George rarely mounted a horse, he insisted on being portrayed in a dark grey riding jacket and boots...
Association members attended an amiable, buzzing, first-night reception, divided $1,035 prize money among eleven of their number. Among the guests of honor were white-haired Art Patron Anne Morgan, Novelist Fannie Hurst. Top prize: $200 went to 50-year-old Dorothy Eaton of Petersham, Mass, for her large genre painting Country Auction. Another prize: $100 to 33-year-old Manhattanite Anne Eisner for Autumn Landscape, an earthy, heavily painted view of fields and houses...
...into business and became head of he Remington-Sholes typewriter manufacturing company, one of the pioneer companies in America to turn out these machines. He was also president of the Chicago utilities companies. Besides writing several volumes on business and finance, Fay was a music lover and an ardent patron of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when it was directed by Theodore Thomas. The last few years of his life were spent in Cambridge as a resident of Harvard Faculty Club...