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...leprosy Mr. Rockefeller gave about $3,000,000. The League of Nations' library at Geneva was built and stocked with 2,000,000 Rockefeller Jr. dollars. The Palestine Archeological Museum got $1,680,000. Half a million helped build the Shakespeare Memorial Foundation theatre at Stratford upon Avon. A million and a half went to Germany's Heidelberg and Göttingen Universities, London's University College, China's Lingnan University, Japan's Tsuda College. Mr. Rockefeller's biggest single foreign handout was to France's Comité Franco-Américain pour...
Britain's Will H. Hays is a distinguished old peer named William George Tyrrell. Like his U. S. counterpart, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, onetime British Ambassador to France, has no governmental standing but, as salaried ($10,000) president of the Board of Film Censors, a creation of the British film industry, he takes public responsibility for that organization's acts. Actual work he leaves mostly to a professional Cato, one J. Brooke Wilkinson, who works on the principle that any footage controversial enough to ruffle the customary calm of a cinema audience should be deleted...
With Proctor Avon '37 in the leading role as pitcher, the Junior Varsity baseball team staged its second victory of the season when it defeated the Cambridge Collegians 13-3 Saturday on Soldiers Field. Connolly took batting honors with two hits out of his two official times...
Outscored by the Schoolboys from Avon Old Farms, the Yardling poloists lost 13 to 3 1-2 Saturday afternoon on the Hartford, Connecticut tanbark...
...film industry. Last month the Board's president, red-faced, intolerant Rt. Hon. Edward Shortt died. Last week the British cinema industry picked as president of the Board of Film Censors one of the most distinguished and worldly men in the realm, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, holder of Britain's No. 1 diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from 1928 to 1934. Lord Tyrrell accepted the job because he needed the money. Lord Tyrrell knows the Continent like the palm of his hand, loves France and is distrusted by Germans. When he quit his Ambassadorship...