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There are 29,000,000 U. S. public schoolchildren, but the Speyer School is the only U. S. public school for children mentally gifted.* It was created in Manhattan in February 1936 by the city's Board of Education and Columbia's Teachers College, and since that time grey-haired, motherly Professor Leta Stetter Hollingworth has carefully guarded her brood from the adulatory and meddlesome attentions of the public. But this week, entranced by the educational message in a series of unposed candid-camera pictures of her 8 t011-year-old charges taken during the past few months...
...pictures bore no resemblance to the popular caricature of child prodigies with spectacles and top-heavy craniums. More handsome than the average, Speyer's merry-faced youngsters were shown running and laughing like the perennially peptic urchins in magazine advertisements. Only their activities were unusual-playing chess, repairing engines, writing poetry, composing music, reading heavy volumes...
...view of the public dog-poisoning hysteria, her lawyer obtained a fortnight's stay of trial. Pointing out that Mrs. Tuttle had for years been an S. P. C. A. worker, a contributor to Manhattan's famed Ellin Prince Speyer Animal Hospital, he said: "Mrs. Tuttle is the victim of an adverse public opinion. . . . Mrs. Tuttle likes dogs, and it is not unusual that she stopped to feed some...
...collector whose wealth of Old Masters' drawings thus sifted down last week through dealers to lesser collectors was born in 1859 in Washington, D. C. Migrating to England as a youth, Henry Oppenheimer went into "the City.'' became a member of the Speyer Brothers' banking firm. A generous and kindly Jew whose friends called him "Hen Opp," prosperous Mr. Oppenheimer soon began to acquire majolica, medals, coins, intaglios, objects of antique Greek and Roman art. In 1912 "Hen Opp" laid the keel of his collection of Old Masters' sketches when he made an extensive purchase...
When the War broke Speyer Brothers went out of business and "Hen Opp" retired, made no more money, bought little more art. With Zeppelins over London in 1917, Sir Charles Holmes's thoughts turned to "Hen Opp,'" who had helped finance the Underground, was called "Father of the London Subway." In his memoirs published fortnight ago* Sir Charles recalled how "Hen Opp" quickly arranged to store in "the unused station in the Strand . . . a perfect subterranean fortress . . . some 900 of our best pictures, with selected works from great private collections." Generous to the last in loaning drawings from...