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Juiciest bait in President Gates's appeal for funds for a bigger and better University of Pennsylvania is a plan to build a small experimental college and athletic fields in Valley Forge, 22 miles from the noisy city campus on Walnut Street. To start with 50 freshmen, the tiny college I will instruct selected students by the tutorial method mainly in American history, government and English for a fee of about $1,250 a year. Other drive aims: strengthening the faculty, more money for research, more scholarships, new chemistry and library buildings, extension of the museum...
President in 1936, stared at an AP dispatch which carried no logotype. Colonel Knox's face, normally ruddy and smiling, became ruddy and grim. He strode into his office, whose walnut panels once adorned the private library of late News Publisher Victor Lawson. Popping down before his little typewriter beside his great desk, Publisher Knox jangled the keys. In rare rough rider style he rattled off an editorial ripping into AP-the great press association of which Publisher Victor Lawson was founder, of which Melville Stone (founder of the News) was long general manager. He wrote...
...automobile to familiar uses of the sofa, such as long talks, love-making and sleep, was a minor worry to furniture manufacturers long before 1929. A major worry was the fact that efficient mass production of automobiles gave buyers more for their money than they could get in walnut or fumed oak. In the 1920s automobiles displaced furniture as "Public Want No. 2" (No. 1-necessities of food and clothing) and contributed to the decline in furniture sales which began in 1927 after an all-time peak of $800,000,000 the preceding year. Other main cause was the downward...
...These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century Brussels Gothic tapestry, 13-by-21 ft., depicting the story of the Prodigal Son. For practicing prodigals was the sale's oddest item, a rare Georgian walnut & leather "drunkard's chair" with slots at the sides for poles by which chair & occupant could be carried. Total sales for the week...
...keeper of Philadelphia's Walnut Street Jail was scandalized, sullenly consented to a religious service for his charges only because the sheriff commanded him to in writing. When Bishop William White and Dr. William Rogers arrived at the jail, they found a number of convicts huddled before an improvised pulpit, beside which stood a formidable cannon whose gunner had lighted a taper, ready to fire at the slightest sign of trouble...