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Died, Lowell Sherman, 49, oldtime actor (High Stakes, The Woman Disputed), cinema villain (Way Down East), director (She Done Him Wrong, Morning Glory); of pneumonia; in Hollywood...
...when opera glasses were brought out for the annual inspection of the Diamond Horseshoe. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was there, in hair ribbon and diamond stomacher. Goelets, Blisses and Wilsons had their oldtime boxes. In the Morgan box sat Mrs. Herbert Satterlee, Mr. Morgan's sister. With Mrs. Watts Sherman was her granddaughter, Eileen Gillespie, who almost became Mrs. John Jacob Astor III. Missing was old Mrs. Vanderbilt, Society's long-time peeress, and Otto Hermann Kahn, for years the Metropolitan's best friend. Both had died within the year...
Grant should have full credit, says Mc-Cormick, for the conception and execution of the 1864 campaign that ended the Civil War—"the most comprehensive campaign of all time." His plan included Sherman's March to the Sea, the destruction of Hood's army in Tennessee. As commander-in-chief of the Army of the Potomac, he had to fight not only the redoubtable Lee but his own inefficient, stupid or untrustworthy lieutenants. Only two of Grant's generals whom Biographer McCormick praises are Sherman and Sheridan: Sherman was a good tactician but a poor fighter...
Harvard Club of Chicago. Luncheon, December 26, 12.15 o'clock, "House on the Roof," Sherman Hotel, Chicago. Secretary, John W. Valentine, 115 W. Monroe St., Chicago...
...comfortable Manhattan studio of Levon West last week assembled Mr. & Mrs. Sherman Reese Hoyt, Dr. & Mrs. Byron Stookey, Mr. Howard E. Coffin, Mrs. Jacob Gould Schurman, Mrs. Richard C. Bondy, Dr. & Mrs. Philip Childs Potter, Mrs. Eli Whitney Debevoise, and a French poodle named Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen...