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...affected and confused, it is an incoherent patchwork of incidents stretching from Waterloo to Roosevelt II, centering in the Civil War and loosely sewn together by the narrative of a young man in search of his ancestors. (One of them is Grand father Romulus Hanks, late Captain of the 117th Iowa.) It is crowded with pas sages of adolescent naughtiness, self-conscious profanity and dreamy, implausible and interminable accounts of old Southern vices. Its battle scenes are compounded reports of decapitations, disembowelings, castrations. It is a novel of death without grief, fornication without intimacy (or even without much interest), violence...
...Harris' trial was scheduled to begin at Shelbyville. Circuit Judge Coleman sensed trouble. The sheriff requested from Governor Hill McAlister enough militiamen to prevent disorder. Accordingly, when Harris was brought into Shelbyville he was riding in an olive drab militia truck and men from three companies of the 117th Tennessee National Guard were riding along with...
President Nicholas Murray ("Miracu lous") Butler, of Columbia University, whose "who" in Who's Who runs an entire column, last week stepped into a five-story house on West 117th Street, Manhattan, with young and elegant Baron von Prittwitz, German Ambassador to the U. S. With the Baron was the Baroness...
...half-dozen foreign countries. Internationally-minded, he sees the advantages, the necessity of internationally-minded education. He would not mind see ing in Columbia a university city like that in Paris where 15 countries will have dormitories to house their Paris students (TIME, Sept. 10). Already on 117th Street beside the Deutsches Haus are a Casa Italiana, a Maison Franchise...
Countess Hella Brandenstein, daughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany's most distinguished pioneer in aeronautics, tipped a gilded bottle, allowed a stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...