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...could be found in Author Bacon's bestsellers, just nice people doing nice things. Now, with the publication of Counterpoint after ten years, a few readers, remembering the old books, will be struck with the way a similar article produces a different reaction. Over this story of Will Stickney, of Naomi Lestrange (whom he marries, with whom he parts after vicissitudes, to whom he returns at the last), of many highly imaginary musical celebrities, there is a heavy coating of dust which almost obscures the few virtues which Author Bacon, as an artist, possesses. Whether literature has improved...
Died. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, 66, militant-liberal Episcopal minister; of uremic poisoning, following an appendix operation; at Mount Kisco, N. Y. Bishop Manning of New York refused to allow him to become Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig's third husband...
...Reverend Percy Stickney Grant '83, for over thirty years Rector of the Church of the Ascension in New York city, will address the gathering on the subject of "A New England Mistake" the second week in February. The exact night on which he will speak has not yet been determined...
Vermont voters nominated Senator Porter H. Dale without opposition due to the withdrawal of onetime (1900-02) Governor William Wallace Stickney (TIME, July...
Last week Mr. Stickney sat dull-eyed. Acute prophets had augured a smashing victory for Mr. Dale. Not that Mr. Stickney had heeded these portents; but apparently Mr. Coolidge had. The Chief Executive, perhaps annoyed by the fiascos of his followers in North Dakota, Illinois, Oregon, Iowa, perhaps unwilling to court a possible strike-out in his native state, evidently refused to support his cousin. . . . Mr. Stickney made an announcement. He had not felt well lately. In the fall, he would...