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...State Department had been panicky lest anti-Fascist demonstrations mar Signer Grandi's reception. A plan to have him flown from New York harbor by Pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh was canceled because of bad weather. In clothes grey as the encircling fog. Minister Grandi & party were taken off the S. S. Conte Grande at Quarantine in a tug, hustled over to a Pennsylvania R. R. pier in Jersey City to a special train. Everywhere were armed guards, special agents, railroad detectives to suppress any hostility. None occurred...
...Toledo Federal Court last week the pot's objection to being called black by the kettle was denied. Nan Britton, unmarried mother of a 12-year-old girl who she says is the offspring of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding, was suing Charles Augustus Klunk, hotel proprietor of Marion, Ohio and friend of the 29th President, for selling a book called The Answer to "The President's Daughter" (TIME, Nov. 9). The Answer described Miss Britton as a "degenerate," gave the lie to her account of extra-mari- tal adventures with President Harding set down...
...published a thin little book entitled The Answer to "The President's Daughter" in which he defended President Harding's good name, denied that the President was biologically able to achieve paternity, depicted Miss Britton as an unscrupulous impostor with a bad character. Round-faced, smiling Charles Augustus Klunk, 53, old Harding friend, proprietor of the Marion (Ohio) Hotel, put Author de Barthe's book on sale at the newsstand of his musty old American-plan hostelry. Miss Britton filed a $50,000 suit against him on the ground that his distribution of The Answer libeled...
...blood vessels, and several dozens of intricate machines for examining the health of living hearts and blood vessels were on exhibit at the New York Academy of Medicine last week. Twenty-two authorities and 150 clinicians were present to lecture on curious aspects of heart disease. President John Augustus Hartwell of the Academy, a great surgeon, introduced them. Dr. Emanuel Libman, a great internist whom they will honor with a "homage book" next year, gave them his encouragement. In that way the Academy began a fortnight's thoroughgoing post-graduate course on the U. S.'s worst affliction...
...gesture." to save their parents' money, at the suggestion of their President Harry Augustus Garneld. the 15 fraternities of Williams College voted to abandon autumn houseparties...