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...gets the real McCoy? Opinions garnered in a hasty canvass late last night showed considerable variety as the Puritan authorities claimed to have a claim on Carmody for the evening and several Dunstermen seemed to think a Jekyll-Hyde act probable. The twin brother hypothesis was quelled by Jimmie himself, who finally let it be known he was going to spend the evening at the Puritan frolic...
...Wing's Fort" is a Boston nickname for the bulging limestone edifice of First National Bank. Inside, the building has more the air of a cathedral. Although descended from Puritan stock, Board Chairman Daniel Gould Wing is no Bostonian. He got his start as a messenger boy in Lincoln, Neb. Arriving in Boston as a bank examiner in 1899, he stayed to become president of the Massachusetts National Bank. When that bank merged with First National, he became president, later board chairman. Last week, at 67, Mr. Wing retired because of poor health. Bernard Walton Trafford, vice chairman, stepped...
...investment trusts bought, a large block of stock in Cliffs Corp., the holding company superimposed on the iron company. The sellers were supposed to have been Cleveland's rich & pious Mathers, who have dominated the company since it was founded in 1850 by a direct descendant of Puritan Richard Mather.* Only one of the six buyers was identified: Adams Express, which is not an express company at all but an investment trust. Simultaneously it was learned that Cleveland-Cliffs was dickering with Hayden. Stone & Co. for some financing by which it might pay off a staggering total of bank...
...Richard's son, Increase Mather, was Harvard's sixth president. Increase sired Cotton Mather, prodigious Puritan scribe (450 books...
Published last week was the second of the series, The Puritan Strain. Shrewdly made up of the time-tested ingredients of the familiar triangle plot, it tells the story of 40-year-old Elizabeth Condit Gates who, like the heroine of many a popular romance, fell high-mindedly in love with her husband's best friend. Author Baldwin takes many liberties with the conventions of sentimental fiction: 1) in showing Elizabeth clinging to her lover despite her regret at the pain she caused her husband; 2) going on with her plans to remarry despite her agony...