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Alia Nazimova, 50, was born of well-to-do, cultivated parents in Yalta, the Crimea. She had schooling at Zurich, studied the violin at Odessa, spent four years in a Moscow dramatic school. Aged 26, she made her U. S. debut after a European tour with Paul Orleneff's Russian company. A year later the Brothers Shubert contracted with her to play in English; she learned the language in six months, appeared in Manhattan in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. So successful was she that the Shuberts built her the Nazimova Theatre (now the 39th Street Theatre). With Lionel...
John Henry Newman was born in London in 1801, of well-to-do and cultured parents. He was destined to intellectual struggle and religious leadership. Even as a schoolboy at Dr. Nicholas's Academy for Young Gentlemen, at Ealing, he was considered an impressive speaker, and "was selected to deliver a speech before the Duke of Kent. The boy's voice had just then begun to break, and though he persevered with his speech, it was more like a yodelling performance than a sober oration. The Doctor in some embarrassment . . . explained apologetically, 'His voice is breaking.' 'Ah,' replied the Duke...
Career: His father Levi, descendant of Nathaniel Dickinson, Massachusetts settler of 1630, migrated to Iowa after the Civil War, bought land at $1 per acre, sold it for $6, became a well-to-do husbandman. His son did farm chores, attended common school, grew tall and solid. Ambitious, he helped pay his way through Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa) which graduated him in 1898. He studied law at Iowa State University, hung out his shingle at the age of 26 in the town of Algona. Two years later he married Miss Myrtle Call who bore him a son, a daughter...
...have to recognize the advisability of having three kinds of colleges in America-one for the sons of the rich and well-to-do; . . . another for the drifters, those who don't know what they want; . . . and a third for bright boys. . . . The type of institution that meets his needs is rare. Frankly, Hopkins is prepared to meet this need...
...Scion of well-to-do sheep-owners in the Umbrian hills, Pietro Gasparri (not to be confused with his nephew, Enrico Cardinal Gasparri) studied for the priesthood at Nepi, then at the Pontifical Seminary in Rome. There he attracted the favorable attention of potent Cardinal Mertel, Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, became his secretary. Soon he was professor of Canon Law at the famed Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (TIME, Nov. 18). In 1898 he was elected archbishop, went to Lima as apostolic delegate for Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador. In 1901 he was called to be secretary of the Congregation...