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...Mayor's immediate surroundings were the spacious gold-and-red apartments of the Hotel Crillon's prize suite, where President Wilson, General Pershing and the like had lodged before him. With twelve servants at his beck, the Mayor arrayed himself afresh and received newsgatherers. They noted a small rotundity under his natty waistcoat. He admitted his receptions had been bounteous. "If this keeps up much longer," he said, "I shall have to finish my vacation in a hospital. ... I will soon be developed enough around the middle to qualify for an alderman. . . . When I get my feet under my desk...
...Lionel Hallam Tennyson, grandson of Poet Tennyson and heir of the present Baron Tennyson; from the onetime Clarissa Madeline Georgina Felicity Tennant, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith ("Margot"); at London. The suit was not contested by Mrs. Tennyson. Her husband named as corespondent James Montgomery Beck Jr., of London, son of the onetime Solicitor General...
Next fall, the reports of the Student Advisors, instead of going to the CRIMSON and being blazoned forth--anonymously--to a gossiping and inquisitive world, will be at the beck and call of the Deans of the Class of 1931. A Freshman will fail to pass two of his November hour examinations, and from the recesses of University Hall will fly a message: "Bring us the advisor's report on Mr. Blank!" The Student Advisory Committee will go through its files, discover the desired report, and dispatch it posthaste to University 4. And presumably the Deans will peruse carefully...
Dunbar Dyson Beck, son of an Indianapolis, Ind., airbrake manufacturer, had submitted several canvases, the central one representing the eternal Madonna and Child in an "Adoration...
Asked if he thought the Nationalists would achieve success, Professor Horn- beck replied: "The Nationalist idea will eventually, I think, prevail all over China. Whether the present drive of the Nationalist government, merely a manifestation of the idea, will go on to Pekin or not, I am not prepared to say. With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power...