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...LeRoy watched the goings on, and when they were over returned to his little workshop uptown with the comfortable feeling that, even if the notables had not paid much attention to him, he was directly, almost solely, responsibile for their party. He had asked them beforehand if they would like to place something truly historic in that cornerstone and when they said "yes," had given them the first four strips of film that any man ever ran through a motion picture projector...
...homeward bound" pennant 170*ft. long, decked with 13 stars, some of which had perforce been snipped out of pink lingerie, wriggled and writhed in the breezes of New York harbor. Beneath it, no whit discomfited by the exuberant blasts of a steam whistle, there moved toward an uptown dock: Jeweled crabs, fish with eight "hands," fish with transparent panes set into their stomachs, fish with navigation lights, sex-appeal lights, food-luring lights, fish with folding films of luminous bacteria, a devilfish with a beam of 18 ft., parasite fish with suckers on their heads for clinging...
...Lord, whom ye seek, shall come suddenly to his temple, said that sharp little prophet, Malachi. Had any seeker for the Lord pushed his way through the crowd of 8,000-odd witnesses and entered an uptown church in Manhattan, last week, he would have found refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid. Such were the festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized...
...twilight, was to be left to the bludgeonings of the real-estate auctioneer. The inextinguishable appeal of extinguished gallantry wrung the hearts of the human interest writers who briefly noted the fact that Steinway & Sons, famed piano manufacturers, were to move from the old place to a new building* uptown...
Came Henry, an inventor, who got the tin-can sound out of his grandfather's perfected dulcimer; Theodore, a mechanic, who standardized construction. Business moved uptown, from a barn to an office building. William, an organizer, headed the house of Steinway. He built Steinway Hall, which, last week, became a subject for the writers of human interest articles...