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Asked about his predicament, Superintendent McAndrew was bland. "The investigations," he said, "have all been conducted on the same plane. I have been given no bill of requirements to fill out and no specific educational policies to defend." Then, with exquisite tact, he added: ''I have been in Chicago, altogether, seven* years. Since things move five times as fast in Chicago as elsewhere, those seven years amount to 35 actual years. That is long enough to absorb the Chicago atmosphere...
...ROMANTIC COMEDIANS?Ellen Glasgow?Doubleday, Page ($2.50). Judge Gamaliel Bland Honeywell?note his middle name? was jilted in the heat of his Southern-Victorian youth by queenly Amanda Lightfoot. On the rebound he married a dovelike Cordelia whose solicitude for his digestion during their 36 years together far surpassed her sublimation of his romantic tendencies?or, dare we say, his passions. They had no children. She modestly discouraged his tenderest husbanding. Hence it was not surprising that Gamaliel, at chivalric 65, caught himself thinking, as he laid his fifty-second weekly wreath on Cordelia's grave, of other women?...
...Union Club of Shanghai banqueted him, waited over the cigars for some hint of Downing Street's policy toward China from their lanky guest. At last he dropped a most portentous hint. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am going to Hankow on my way to Peking. . . ." Thus, by a bland indirection, Minister Lampson announced that his real business in China is not with the impotent vanishing "Government" at Peking to which he is accredited, but with the new, potent Cantonese Government which already controls half China and was moved last week to its new Capital, the recently captured city...
...control of cancer it is necessary to educate men and women to the importance of seeking advice for nodules, birth marks, warts, moles and chronic ulcers. The significance of such defects is known to well-trained surgeons and their removal is as a rule, simple and safe."-Sir John Bland-Sutton of London...
...Bland and beneficent, the Commission on International Justice and Good Will of the Federal Council of Churches assembled last week at Chautauqua, N. Y., to talk about the brotherhood of nations, broader visions, service, sympathy, etc., etc. Among the addresses was that of the Rev. Dr. Edward Shillito of England. His most widely discussed point...