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...antithesis of his immediate predecessors on the Post, Publisher Stern at least shares with its oldtime Editors Edwin Lawrence Godkin and Oswald Garrison Villard, a ready liberalism and an ink-stained knowledge of how to run a newspaper. A young Philadelphian out of the University of Pennsylvania, he bought the New Brunswick (N. J.) Times for $1,500 in 1911, when he was 25. With it, he promptly began a lively campaign to clean up the municipal government. When he sold the Times to political adversaries he got $25,000. He and his wife bought a car, drove to Springfield...
...traveler it was just another testimonial advertisement. But to any Philadelphian who knew his city, it was a sensation...
...them. While the N. Y. U. building fund languished, acquisitive Director Fiske Kimball of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, cash in hand, had won the New York Life's permission to take the lady to Philadelphia, set her up on a tower in Fairmount Park. At least one Philadelphian was not ready to welcome the "Lady Higher Up." Rev. Mary Hubbert Ellis, pastor of the Primitive Methodist Church, had heard that the Lady was nude. "We are going to have a meeting next Wednesday," said Primitive Methodist Ellis, "to take up complaints about obscene books, nude pictures and also...
...with Hayes just inaugurated, the Philadelphia Union League Club decided it should have a portrait of the new President to hang on the walls of its new clubhouse. Eakins, a Philadelphian who had won prizes at the Centennial Exposition, was commissioned. Like most new Presidents, Mr. Hayes felt he had no time to give for sittings. Artist Eakins humbly suggested that the Chief Executive might allow him to set up his easel in the President's office and make a picture while the President worked. Mr. Hayes, an excellent if unimaginative man, was agreeable; he stripped off his coat...
...professor of French Literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, but has spent many months at Harvard in the past. He is best known for his recent book. "Benjamin Franklin, the Apostle of Modern Times," a biography of the great Philadelphian...