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...group of manufacturers), Selby shoes, Pond's cold cream. Total proceeds: about $150,000. Until she learned better, she gave all of it to charity, paid the taxes on it herself. Now she deducts income taxes first, hands out the rest. Her favorite outlet is the American Friends (Quaker) Service Committee, which will receive her net proceeds from Sweetheart Soap...
Unlike almost every other big city in the U. S., Philadelphia had no real art museum until after World War I. In 1919 hardboiled, gimlet-eyed Quaker Lawyer Eli Kirk Price started pulling political strings, got a modest $200,000 appropriation "to build a museum of art at Fairmount," then strung the city fathers along year by year until he had a $12,000,000 building. "He knew if we did the ends first, we'd have to finish the middle sometime," says bulky, bustling Fiske Kimball, who in 1925 left his job as head of New York University...
...married life of Bertrand Russell, nobly-born British mathematician and philosopher, has been unconventional. His first wife, Alys Pearsall Smith, a Quaker, divorced him in 1921 because he was about to have a child by another woman, Dora Winifred Black. His second wife, Dora Black, shared his view that people should "indulge in marital infidelity to preserve their homes." In 1933 she announced that she had had a child by British Journalist Griffin Barry. Two years later she divorced Earl Russell, charging him with adultery. Next year, at 64, Earl Russell married his former secretary, Patricia Helen Spence, who later...
...game was a fast one with the ball traveling back and forth, up and down the floor, but the Crimson offense was not able to break through a stubborn Quaker defense and get close shots at the basket...
Three men dominated Penn's scoring against Dartmouth; Sid Levinson at guard tallied 18, Captain Gerry Seeders at forward chalked up 16, and Hen Soleliac at pivot scored 15. These three accounted for all but twelve of the Quaker total and they will be the men who will bear watching tonight...