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...Chinese snipers" they claimed to be looking for, and have never asked the U. S. Consul General to issue a warrant. Obviously, from both the Japanese and U. S. points of view, to ask for a warrant is to tip off the Consul General who, if anything really is amiss, will tip off his own countrymen who are on the point of being raided...
Elsewhere in these columns is a provoking editorial note praising the generosity of a patron of art and suggesting that it would not be amiss if the Chicago community were to aid Mr. Louis Eckstein in his material support of the Ravinia Park summer opera. Bostonians have not to go abroad to find a citizen equally praiseworthy for his beneficence in a similar work. They have only to refer to Major Higginson...
...Lampoon, CRIMSON, and Advocate editors they came; past the Scylla and Charybdis of pressing contractors to the free milk bar. Some hurried; some loitered like old boys. Whatever their manner now these are the men who will make Harvard and they may well realize that fact. It seems not amiss to consider Harvard as a product, like clothing, for example. And it appears no further astray to give those men who are associated with the product the appellation, Harvard men, as the designation, clothiers, is applied to those who make clothing. Harvard men have ever worn their own intellectual clothing...
...Wolf's brokers become suspicious of the vast amount of collateral at the disposal of a modest bank clerk. The suspicion was laid before a vice president of Continental Illinois. An audit of Wolf's accounts was made while he was on vacation. The audit disclosed nothing amiss. But in his $75-a-month home in River Forest Wolf heard of the audit and thought his game was up. He asked the vice president, an old, personal friend, to call at his house that evening. The two men sat down knee to knee and in ten minutes...
...over here and for the most part they show such a flagrant misunderstanding of the mental attitude of those here who banned the Hollywood production that I feel that even at this last date a few words in explanation from one who is on the spot would not be amiss...