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Fourth most illiterate of the United States is Alabama; 16.1% of its total population (2,573,000) can neither read nor write.* Alabama education has had no great patron like Delaware's Pierre Samuel du Pont or New England's Edward Stephen Harkness. Last week, however, it was revealed that Alabama would get some $7,500,000 worth of brand new boys' schools, bequest of the late Harvey G. Woodward, Birmingham real estate and iron man who died last November...
Choice of Assisi as the scene of the wedding was made entirely by Princess Giovanna. St. Francis is her patron saint, she is actually a Tertiary or lay sister...
Apes! . . . Cockroaches!" ended in a vote of 318 to 236. The Government had won by a triumphal majority of 82! Once again, Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruning was virtual Dictator of Germany, able to put through his policy of drastic fiscal retrenchment under a series of decrees signed by his patron, the man who made him, Old Paul von Hindenburg-until the Reichstag meets again...
...last week on Manhattan's artiest street, East 57th, with an opening exhibition that snapped one more spat-button of respectability on the artistic insurgents of 1918: Derain, Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse. Grizzle-chinned Henri Matisse was present in person to confer a Parisian benediction. Owner and patron of the gallery was beauteous Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, onetime daughter-in-law of Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, present wife of Banker-Sportsman William Averell Harriman. The Marie Harriman Gallery will probably never feel that fear of financial disaster which hangs like a permanent black pall over most...
Louis Eckstein, retired publisher of Red Book and Blue Book, patron of rustic summer opera at Ravinia Park, 111., announced Ravinia's 1930 deficit: $241,000, largest in 19 years. Patron Eckstein's share: $139,107.20, other patrons making up the balance. Cost what it may, so long as he lives, Mr. Eckstein said, there will be opera at Ravinia...