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...chapter on the Glim Club, which combines all of the most fantastic stories of Harvard's most fantastic final clubs. It is the oldest club in the world has songs by Bach, portraits of the founders by Van Dyke, effigies of the founders by Mme. Tussaud, presentation casks of Napoleon brandy, and a styward (Old English for steward) who is the eighth descendant in line of the original Chiffinch, the first styward, who mixed stirrup cups back in the pre-Revolutionary days for the brave lads, then members of the Glim...
...Will he never grow up?" wondered Britons when they learned, last week, that Edward of Wales, 33, had slipped off like an Eton schoolboy to the new Mme. Tussaud's Waxworks in Marylebone Road.† There His Royal Highness promenaded for an hour unrecognized, viewed an excellent dummy likeness of himself, and was finally detected by a knowing urchin while he lingered in the Chamber of Horrors...
...Tussaud's burned down (TIME, March...
...Madame Tussaud's wax works partially burned up in March...
Thirty years ago, rural visitors to Manhattan were careful to see the Eden Musée which, like Madame Tussaud's* in London and the Grévin in Paris, was a gallery of wax statues. The collection was at that time situated on 23rd Street; of late years, its patronage lessened but not destroyed, the Eden Musée has been located on Coney Island...