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...solid ore of Balzac, Brontė, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, George Eliot, Bret Harte, Hawthorne, Howells, Kipling, Meredith, Scott, Stevenson, Thackeray, Mark Twain. . . . There is nothing austerely highbrow in his choice: he enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem to be Thomas Nelson Page, Tarkington, Edith Wharton, Stewart Edward White, Willa Cather, Harry Leon Wilson, Zane Grey...
...Finance Professor James Cummings Bonbright of Columbia University, Secretary of the Power Authority of the State of New York, spoke on "The Breakdown of the Public Utility Holding Company." Utilitymen read his speech with keen interest for they knew Professor Bonbright to be a cousin of the late William Prescott Bonbright and of Irving W. Bonbright, co-founders of Bonbright & Co., utility bankers...
Beginning with the breaking of ground this week, work will be started on the new East wing of the Fogg Art Museum, which is to house the Naumberg Art Collection. This new wing will extend from the south corner of the Museum to Prescott street, and is expected to be completed by the beginning of the next academic year...
Team. Of the two men, bullnecked Congressman La Guardia was the more vital and forceful insurrectionist. Bora in Manhattan 49 years ago, the son of an Italian musician, he spent most of his early life at Whipple Barracks, Prescott, Ariz., where his father was Army bandmaster. Graduated from New York University in 1910, he turned to politics, was first elected to Congress in 1916. Instead of warming his seat during the War he became a major in the Army, was sent to Italy in command of U. S. aviation forces, flew bombing planes over the Austrian lines. Later he returned...
Blimp in a Gale. When the wind over Manhattan whipped up to gale force Pilot Prescott Dixon of the Goodyear blirnp Columbia decided to get back to earth...