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...Whitney to row at Yale; he stroked the 1926 junior varsity. When his father died, he had just finished a year at Oxford. Since then-though he belongs definitely to the more conservative branch of the family, in whom the prudent Payne blood runs strong-he has begun to blossom out as befits a young man with a fortune estimated at $100,000,000. Readily accessible in his office at No. 14 Wall St., he is not suspicious or wary of people who come to sell him things, but keenly alert for interesting and constructive ways to invest his money...
...following graduates of Arts and Sciences received A.M. degrees: J. S. M. Allely, Lindsey, Ont., Canada; O. R. Altman, E. St. Louis, Ill.; R. C. Bacon, Quincy, Mass.; D. M. Bates, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; G. G. Benedict, Providence, R. I.; B. K. Blossom, Marion, Ind.; J. W. Boldyreff, Battle Creek, Mich.; J. R. Brewster, Andover, Mass.; John Butler, Wakefield, Mass.; G. K. Chalmers, So. Hadley, Mass.; M. L. Chan, Tsingtao, China; Tsung-Yuang Chang, Anhin, China; Isiah Chase, West Roxbury, Mass.; D. L. Cherry, Watsonville, Cal.; F. H. Clark, Hyde Park, Mass.; R. E. Dees, Crystal Springs, Miss...
...word might be said about Dr. Blossom's translation. In many ways it lacks that which made C. K. Scott-Moncriess' translation, one of the best examples of the art in English. The Classic flavor, for instance, of that great scholar's prose, so admirably suited to the epic "Remembrance of Things Past" is, has disappeared. On the other hand, Dr. Blossom has a marvelous command of the colloquial idiom which brings out another side of Proust's French. But in any case, "The Past Recaptured" is a vast improvement over the former translation, never published in this country, titled...
First the Nation's guest had to have the Order of Merit (1st class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...
...shih seemed so flabbergasted by the honor done him that Japanese courtiers had to nudge him at the right moments as he made his speech of thanks for recognition of Manchukuo, then received the dazzling Order of Merit, Grand Cordon, Medallion of the Rising Sun and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom...