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...Mark Twain", Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...Mark Twain", Professor Murdock, Harvard...
Since 1870, the Lotos Club has considered itself and been considered authoritatively epicurean in personalities as well as gastronomies. Paderewski and Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Mary Garden and Andrew William Mellon, are some of the figures who have been honored, variously, with its cocktails, terrapin and oratory. The senior Oliver Wendell Holmes attended in 1883 and punned for the lotophagi six times in one hour...
Madcap though he may have seemed, Bennett made the Herald thrive. In the '70s and early '80s, it had the best staff of reporters and editors in the U. S. Mark Twain and Walt Whitman wrote for it. The decline of the Herald began when the late Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst entered the New York field as competitors, with the World and the American, respectively...
There are flippants who think of Ossip Gabrilowitsch as the little conductor with the highest collar in the world. There are others who know him better-as the Russian pianist who came to the U. S. and married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, or as the conductor who went to Detroit and built up an orchestra there...