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What The Fool is to the stage, to an even greater degree a novel called In His Steps has been to literature. Written in 1896 by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon, Congregational minister of Topeka, Kans., In His Steps tells of a preacher who not only tried to live as Christ would have lived in modern times but succeeded in starting a great movement among laymen who pledged themselves to do likewise. Translated in 21 languages, published under 47 different foreign imprints, In His Steps has sold more than 25,000,000 copies, sometimes trailing only the Bible as a bestseller...
...Author Sheldon emulated his book by editing Senator Arthur Capper's Topeka Daily Capital for a week as he believed Jesus would have done. So much in demand were copies that mats were rushed to Chicago, New York and London. Now 66, tall and genial, Author Sheldon has retired from the pulpit, is a doughty warrior for Prohibition, and a contributing editor to the Christian Herald (of which he was editor-in-chief from 1920 to 1925). He has written some 33 books, but his fame still rests upon In His Steps. It might be supposed that his wealth...
...Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of Meat-Packer Jonathan Ogden Armour, paid $1,000,000 cash* to the estate of Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, daughter of Marshall Field, for a small (53.2 x 150.5 ft.) lot on the northeast corner of Chicago's State & Madison Streets, "world's busiest corner." Bought t»y Marshall Field in 1876 for $53,390, now part of the site of a department store, it returns $60,000 annually, is assessed...
...President Roosevelt last week stepped Career Diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse up from Minister to Guatemala to Minister to Colombia. An urbane gentleman with wavy hair and elegant manners. Minister Whitehouse was educated at Eton and Yale, got into the Foreign Service as private secretary to the late great Whitelaw Reid when the New York Tribune publisher was Ambassador to Great Britain. As counsel of the Paris embassy in 1927 he was roundly flayed in Congress when it was discovered that sleuths had been sent after New York's Mayor Walker as that playboy took his fun in Paris...
Four others will be enabled to travel abroad next fall as holders of Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships. They are Ralph Philip Boas, Jr. '33, of Norton; Richard Poate Stebbins '33, of Newton Centre; John Coert Campbell '33, of Bronxiville. New York; and Winfield Adelbert Huppuch '33, of Glens Falls, New York...