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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., brother of Mrs. Millicent Rogers Ramos (onetime Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten) and son of Col. Henry H. Rogers, onetime Standard Oil partner of John D. Rockefeller; to Virginia Lincoln, daughter of Dr. William R. Lincoln of Cleveland; in Cleveland...
Lucius Nathan Littauer was born in Stump City, in upstate New York, in 1859. Twenty-six years later Stump City was named Gloversville, because of the gloves that the Littauers, father and son, made there. Now Son Littauer, resembling "Old Paul'' von Hindenburg in a quiet way, is retired and lives in Manhattan or at Premium Point, New Rochelle, N. Y. He often goes back to Gloversville, where everybody knows him and likes to say hello...
Last fortnight, Son Littauer made the crowning gift of a long series of philanthropies. He gave $1,000,000, promised more, to a foundation bearing his name, in "the cause of better understanding among all mankind," and for "altruistic activities of every nature, charitable, humanitarian, educational, religious and communal...
...under his kindness, marveled that he could forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing wife, while she?sad martyr?bore him son after still-born son. Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes. Less vigorous than the earlier volumes The Snake Pit necessarily strikes a minor key in the story...
...Havemeyer died. To the Metropolitan Museum (which now lacks the space properly to exhibit the works) were bequeathed all objects in the collection except Persian potteries which were given to her son, Horace Have meyer. It was stipulated that the collection be kept otherwise intact, dedicated to the memory of her late husband. The gift was a final gesture, concluding a series of anonymous flourishes. Frequently in the past Mrs. Havemeyer gave or loaned pieces from her collections, always, how ever, with the stipulation that her name be not mentioned...