President Emeritus Harry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago was there, and Dr. James H. Breasted, famed Egyptologist. Drs. Shailer Mathews and Theodore G. Scares of the Chicago University divinity school, and Maurice L. Goodkind of the medical school, were there. So were Lessing Rosenthal, Dr. Louis Mann, Harold H. Swift and other important Chicago south-siders—all at the home of Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, for a party as distinguished as it was unusual.
The chief guests were Edward Lasker, chess wizard,* and a swarthy gentleman whom he had found in Manhattan, a gentleman with a...
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