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Colorado Springs' No. 1 philanthropist and art-lover is Mrs. Fred Morgan Pike Taylor, a broker's widow, a St. Louis sack-&-bag man's daughter, who gave the Fine Arts Center $600,000 for a building, enough to endow it with $100,000 a year. Designed by Architect John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe, it is massive, severely functional...
DeLamar Student Research Fellowships: Milton Landowne, 3M., Brooklyn, New York; George M. Pike, 3M., Brookline: Richard L. Riley, 2M., Plainfield, New Jersey; Emmanuel B. Schoenbach, 2M., New York...
...Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed down, in a vain attempt to level the ship off. The altimeter registered 4,600 ft. before the Macon faltered in its helpless ascent, began to fall tail first. Pike-plain to all aboard was the fact that the Navy's last dirigible was rapidly going to pieces in midair. No. 2 gas cell popped open, then No. 9. Girders began snapping like so many pretzels. One rudder gave way and the whole stern seemed to crumple like...
...Negro college has ever grown rich, and Lincoln has fared even worse than such younger and bigger institutions as Howard, Hampton, Tuskegee, and Fisk. Its plant consists of a cluster of grimy brick buildings fronting on the busy Baltimore Pike. Lately President Johnson and his trustees have been pondering two facts: 1) the centre of U. S. Negro population, fed by the teeming black sections of Washington, New York and Philadelphia, has been shifting rapidly northward and eastward; 2) Lincoln is the only first-rate Negro university north of the Mason & Dixon Line, east of Ohio's Wilberforce...
...Daughters of 1812 provided money for a memorial tablet to be raised in Toronto to "General Pike and the others of the U. S. forces killed in action." Toronto's Mayor William Stewart and his Council had contributed the spot for the tablet on the original site of old Fort York, had agreed to preside at the unveiling ceremonies next July...