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Innocence and Bliss. The show and the crowds would have pleased the Modern Museum's prime founder, Lizzie ("Lillie") P. Bliss, late, wealthy daughter of Drygoodsman Cornelius N. Bliss. Genial hostess of a teetotaling salon, Founder Bliss was one of the greatest art collectors produced by Manhattan society's latter-day Age of Innocence...
Among the judges will be Clarence H. Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Master of Dunster House, and Wallace E. Davies, teaching fellow in History and Senior Tutor of Dunster House...
...others, in order: James Thomas Fields, William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Horace Elisha Scudder, Walter Hines Page, Bliss Perry, Ellery Sedgwick...
...William Bliss Harris, who manages the TIME editions printed in Hawaii, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Australia, Persia and India, has been in Sweden ever since October arranging for this first European edition of TIME (he was scheduled to leave Scotland on the Swedish plane the Germans shot down in the Skagerrak, is alive today only because he was switched at the last minute to a British bomber...
...comparatively small number of the student officers are as yet unblessed by connubial bliss, so many pairs of ears pricked up significantly at Lt. O'Neill's mention of the social opportunities available to us and at Lt. O'Connor's praise of the Recreation Officer as what euphemistically might be called a "provider...