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Plates of Gold. The daughter of Colonel William Boyce Thompson, who had built his fortune in South African diamonds and Montana copper, Montana-born Maggie Biddle had shared an estate estimated at $85 million on his death in 1930. She divorced a New York banker the following year and married Philadelphia Socialite Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the dashing soldier who subsequently became U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland (and is now adjutant general of the state of Pennsylvania). They, too, were divorced after the war, but still fond of the diplomatic high life, Maggie Biddle set up a Paris...
...finest works on the program were the corner ones: Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B-minor, BWV 544, and Piston's Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings. The Bach was especially welcome, for it is not often heard these days; it is a lofty master-piece built on unpromising material--one more proof that, in art, manner is more important than matter. Professor Piston's piece, idiomatically written and solidly crafted, still stands up admirably after fifteen years...
With the record of corruption the teamsters had built up, Judge Letts's appointment of monitors was virtually the only practical solution to the suit for invalidation of the election which John Cunningham, New York teamster leader, brought against the union. But neither monitors nor disciplinary expulsion by the AFL-CIO has diminished the union's strength or reformed tendencies toward corruption...
Cooperative houses should not be used by the Administration as an excuse for postponding the final settlement of the commuter problem. When the new Houses are built, commuters can be moved into them even if they must be especially subsidized. Until then, cooperative housing represents a healthy reconciliation with the realities of the commuting situation...
...view of the new Modern Language Center, being built in Boylston Hall, Madame Duhamel thought that an hour language laboratory, in addition to the present four class hours, should be compulsory. "This is the best way for the student to study his own pronunciation," she said...