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...himself to a silent world he could never again see, he traveled through Europe and the Orient. Today he appears before the microphones of radio stations KFAB and KOIL, Omaha, Neb., twice daily to interpret international affairs, though he cannot see to read or hear his voice. He keeps abreast of the news by reading with one finger the lips of his secretary. On the air he talks from Braille notes, speaks clearly and without hesitation, and stops when his fifteen minutes are up by feeling the hands of a glassless watch...
Promptly at 9:30 a. m. a bugle sounded through the rainswept yard. Alumni rallied to 56 flags flying over their respective Class assemblies, began to march four abreast to the exposed and sopping seats of the Tercentenary Theatre. From the broad portico of Widener Library to their equally sopping seats on the stage filed the President of Harvard, Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley, Massachusetts' Senior Episcopal Bishop William Lawrence, 62 foreign and domestic scholars who were to receive honorary degrees. Also on hand was a Federal Commission authorized by Public Resolution No. 88 of the last Congress...
While the Drought sent commodity prices up to new highs for the year, last week's gains in industrial production, retail sales, construction, brought U. S. industry abreast of trade conditions...
...mustered this summer's largest group of retreatants, 135 boilermakers, riveters, mechanics who spent last Independence Day weekend at Malvern. Scheduled for this week is Malvern's first retreat for young boys, to be followed by a midweek retreat for physicians & surgeons. Old retreatants and new keep abreast of Malvern doings by reading the Malvern Mustard Seed, founded by Logan Bullitt, dress-shop owner and cousin of William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., and of Episcopalian Archdeacon James Fry Bullitt of the Pennsylvania diocese...
...Ranking abreast of Kimball is Baldwin Piano Co., which also consigns products to dealers, is consequently called in the trade "that banking house." In third place is Winter & Co. Winter goes in for low-priced pianos, stands near the top in unit production. One of its models is a "pianette" at $99.50 built to compete with Japanese pianos, which cost $4 to make, sell in the U. S. for $50. Aeolian American Corp. has been slipping in the past few years but still holds fourth place in dollar volume with such big names as Chickering and Knabe...