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Last December Editor Payne suddenly decided that New Brunswick had not bared its bosom of all it knew. From the Mirror staff he despatched confidential investigators. Able Reporter Herbert M. Mayer became "sick" and left the office to direct the activity from an uptown Manhattan hotel. A county detective, George Totten, was engaged...
...Perhaps the first thing to catch the eye upon entering the house is the newly completed portrait of Bobby Jones, by Wayman Adams, N. A. This is the property of the Atlanta Athletic club, and will be hung in its new uptown home after the present exhibition...
...millions lay in the darkness of Reporter Nicholl's pocket. Unabashed, he went to his New Jersey home. If he was excited, only his wife and small baby knew it. Sunday being a day of rest, he rested. Monday morning he helped his brother obtain a position in uptown Manhattan. Not until then did he remember that he ought to report his interview with Mr. Cochran to his city editor. He telephoned the story. At 11:55 a. m. innocent looking financial news tickers emitted the words of Thomas Cochran. Post No. 5 on the floor of the Stock...
Undergraduates who study, play bridge, and, theoretically, sleep in the Bow Street dormitories will feel a throb of sympathy at the news that the population of Park Avenue in New York is rising in revolt against a chime of bells recently installed in un uptown church. Just when the nurse gets the baby to sleep, five o'clock strikes with much metallic prelude; and by the time the miracle is once more accomplished, the chime strikes the quarter with such gusto that the child's temper is permanently ruined. There is a great deal of romance about bells...
...years") and his day was the biggest: $1,020,193. He sprang, like the famed Gimbels, from Indiana, having been born in Ligonier just after the Civil War. Soon thereafter his father established in Chicago one of the greatest bond businesses in history. Now a gilded doorway struts into uptown Fifth Avenue, proclaiming the sweep of the Straus enterprises. It is in Manhattan that Simon William functions as President. He is known to have bought pearls of great price, to have contributed staunchly to this and that, but never, like members of the other Straus family, has he been...