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...books. guarded by busts of Ben Franklin and other great printers, is open to the public. At monthly meetings members shoptalk of first editions and Renaissance engravings, entertain each other with addresses on "Pope as a Letter Writer," "Benjamin Franklin, Traveller," "The Terrible Gustave Dore." Members include Moneymen J. Pierpont Morgan, Owen D. Young, Baron Victor Rothschild, Typographers Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Publishers Charles Scribner, Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Physician Logan Clendening, Actor Robert Montgomery, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (honorary...
...Biggest animal art show last week was put on by the dignified, Victorian-upholstered Pierpont Morgan Library, which elbows Manhattan's midtown skyscrapers like a Brewster barouche in a traffic jam of taxis. Said a high-nosed Morgan Library attendant: "I suppose it's a very good idea, at a time when human beings are acting so savagely, to show records of the behavior of animals." From its richly laden shelves, librarians had taken down the Morgan Library's best 9th to 19th-Century bestiaries, travel books, mythologies, collected fables, lives of animal-loving saints, set their...
...past 28 years; Mrs. Somerset Maugham, wife of the British author; Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, soft, luxury-loving French representative of the famed international banking family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose, 11, son of the Earl of Rosebery; Lady Byng, widow of onetime Field Marshal Sir Julian Hedworth George Byng, World War I hero of Vimy Ridge. Said Lady Byng of the bombing of the British village in which she had lived...
...individualistic and it was shamelessly corrupt when the first J. Pierpont Morgan came to Manhattan in 1857 from the London banking house of his father, Junius Spencer Morgan, onetime New England drygoods merchant. Through the "Western Blizzard" panic of that year and for two years more, young, brusque, tough-fibered Morgan listened & learned as a Wall Street junior clerk. By 1860 he was in business as New York agent for his father's George Peabody & Co., bought and sold foreign exchange through the Civil War. Also, he helped finance the sale to the Union Army of 5,000 carbines...
Daughter to one John Pierpont Morgan, sister to another, looking like both, Anne Morgan, head of the American Friends of France, told a Manhattan interviewer: "I live on a trust fund [$3,000,000] and I happen to have confidence in my brother. He handles all of my business. I wouldn't know how to manage my own affairs...