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Notable among Midwestern schools for boys is Lake Forest Academy. Unlike its many neighboring institutions it is not a military school. Since 1858 it has seen Lake Forest, Ill. become Chicago's socialite suburb. As though embarrassed by surrounding opulence, L. F. A.'s old buildings have hidden themselves behind thick trees, gathered ivy about themselves, for L. F. A. is not a Rich School (plant value: $800,000). But no such embarrassment is suffered by big-boned, energetic Headmaster John Wayne Richards, called "Big Dick" by younger faculty members and his 207 boys when out of earshot...
...assistant (1915-18) to Solicitor General John William Davis. Mrs. Szold (Zip S. Falk of Savannah) is a member of Bryn Mawr's summer school administrative committee, is President of Hadassah women s Zionist organization. The Szolds live with their three young daughters at Pelham, New York residential suburb...
Percy Shostac, 27, a Russian East-Side Jew, onetime instructor in English, is by profession a stage-manager. He writes plays on the side, "pretty heavy stuff laid in the Middle Ages." He fell in love with a 30-year-old married woman, living in a New Jersey suburb. Small (5 ft., 6 in.) but fiery, he persuaded her to leave her husband, come live with him on 14th St. When their money ran out, disillusion began to set in. She left him, went back to her husband. He set to work to exorcise her magic by writing this record...
Last week Manhattanite directors of Ulen & Co., international engineers, traveled to Lebanon, Ind., in a specially chartered Ulen & Co. car. There Henry Charles ("HC") Ulen extended them the hospitality of Lebanon's Ulen-built country club, entertained them in his Florentine mansion at Ulen, suburb of Lebanon, and held a directors' meeting at which was declared the company's first common dividend - 40? for the quarter on a $1.60 annual basis. It was also announced that the company's first quarter net was $231,235 and that the year had begun with the company...
...Plummers Corner, suburb of Auburn. Me., Mrs. Carleton Proctor thought the abandoned Little Methodist Church should be used. She got the key, threw out the church supper dishes, scrubbed the floors, filled the lamps, tidied all things. Then she invited neighbors to hear her preach. During a long sermon she announced: "This is God speaking. He is going to have a clean house here. There are never going to be any more church suppers." The congregation walked...