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Visible among the babbling throng of spectators were the 44¼-carat Hope Diamond and its wan owner, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Also on view were the New York Herald Tribune's fashionable chitchat columnist, Lucius Beebe; Ward Morehouse of the New York Sun; Dr. Kingsley Roberts, Manhattan Surgeon; Mrs. Paul T. Mayo of Denver, her sister Mrs. Stanley Harris of Washington, Mrs, William McKinnon of Paris, Eloise Staats of Greenwich, Conn., who raises horses on her Colorado ranch, and a host of other socialites. There was so much alcoholic garrulity in the packed house that the first...
Whitehead delivers his last lecture as admiring throng jams Emerson...
After receiving Mr. Smith, Pius XI gave a general audience for some 400 newly weds and pilgrims from the U. S., India, France, Germany, Canada and Spain. He honored Mr. Smith by seating him in front of the Papal throne and intoning to the throng: "We have with us today a beautiful and worthy representative of America in the person of Mr. Smith, who does honor to all he represents in America and above all to his name and profession as a son of the Catholic Church. ... A man about whom there has been much discussion in important...
...that June our Spring had seemed to throng Until the year was just a backward glance...
...William Mellon—with the help of three Nobel Prize winners, 200 chemists, physicists and engineers most of whom hope to become factory executives, and some 1,500 bystanders-dedicated a project which he conceived when he tried to improve his French 28 years ago. His French, he told the throng last week, "is still what it was originally." But his conception has become a huge, new, nine-story, splendidly equipped factory for research...