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...were leaving China for the first time in history. To help assemble them, the great Orientalist and retired importer George Eumorfopoulos sold his own collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy's sedate Burlington House, along with other Chinese treasures from collections in the U. S., France, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Austria, Egypt, the City of Danzig...
...Elected Bishop of Vermont's 6,000 Episcopal communicants was Rev. Dr. Vedder Van Dyck, vice Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton who was offered the post (TIME, Aug. 12) but declined. Chunky, pink-faced Dr. Van Dyck, 46, has been rector of St. Paul's in Burlington since...
...were young Yalemen who had served together in the Spanish War on the U. S. S. Yosemite- Henry Bourne Joy and Truman Handy Newberry, both born in November 1864. Mr. Joy, whose father formed the "Joy System" of railroads, part of which became the nucleus of the present Chicago, Burlington & Quincy served as Packard's president (1905-16). Mr. Newberry made a pleasant little splash as T.R.'s Secretary of the Navy (1908-09) and a large unpleasant splash a decade later when he defeated Henry Ford for the U. S. Senate, was accused of buying his seat...
Among U. S. collectors contributing to the Modern Museum's exhibition are the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Museum, Adolph Lewisohn, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. William Averell Harriman, Conductor Josef Stransky, A. Conger Goodyear and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winterbotham of Burlington...
...000?to be furnished by Mr. Jones. After abandoning one-third of M. & St. L.'s 1,500 miles of line. Associated Railways proposed to parcel out the rest for the partitioning carriers to operate?429 mi. to either Chicago Great Western or Milwaukee; 197 mi. to Burlington; 140 mi. to Chicago & North Western; 92 mi. to Rock Island; 47 mi. to Great Northern. In addition there are several proposals for joint operation, some of which include Illinois Central and Soo Line...