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Next morning the world learned for the first time that John Pierpont Morgan was a sick man. Two weeks before he had suffered a mild heart attack and a severe attack of neuritis while visiting his late wife's sister, Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby, whose home is near Prides Crossing. Dr. George Parkham Denny, Bostor internist, had pulled Mr. Morgan through the heart attack, had started him toward recovery from the neuritis which had so weakened the muscles of his legs that they had to be spared the weight of his 200 pounds...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week a small, pleasant-faced matron arose to receive a coveted honor. Together with Financier J. Pierpont Morgan (see p. 40), President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Clubs of America and Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Harrison Eustis was given the National Institute of Social Sciences' gold medal for "distinguished services to humanity." Thus recognized by a public body for the first time was a unique educator. Founder and moving spirit of "The Seeing Eye" at Morristown, N. J., Dorothy Eustis for six years has been teaching dogs...
...Seattle 500 University of Washington students clamorously piled wreaths fashioned from green editions of Publisher William Randolph Hearst's PostIntelligencer on the tomb of a future Unknown Soldier, heard a student impersonating J. Pierpont Morgan gloat: "We made money out of the last war. We'll make money out of the next...
...Clark, with round pink face and snapping eyes, sat waiting to ask sharp, insinuating questions. One of the founders of the American Legion, the son of the late great Speaker of the House knew War at first hand. Before the Committee for settlement was a scandalous question: Should J. Pierpont Morgan be hated as a warmonger second only to Kaiser Wilhelm? Did U. S. blood on the fields of France save his financial skin...
Among the specially planned loan exhibitions the most distinctive and well attended was that of the Pierpont Morgan Library's illuminated Manuscripts and Old Master Drawings...