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Touching squarely on the topic which President Roosevelt insists must be kept out of the Conference. Mr. MacDonald rasped with a stubborn Scotch burr: "The question of War debts . . . must be dealt with before every obstacle to general recovery has been removed and it must be taken up without delay...
...feel they knew Dr. Dodds very well, just as Harvard men last month did not feel acquainted with their new President James Bryant Conant (TIME, May 15). Between the two there is further resemblance. Both are cool, shrewd, quiet, bespectacled. Dr. Dodds is the youngest Princeton president since Aaron Burr (32)* in 1748 and Samuel Davies (36) in 1759. No other Princeton president save Woodrow Wilson has been a non-clergyman, but Dr. Dodds, like Wilson, is the son of a Presbyterian minister. Born in Utica. Pa. he grew up in Grove City and took his A. B. degree...
...When he was a young man, Ernest Torrence planned to be a musician. He wrote the music for a play called The Lady from Lyons, was first baritone for the Savoy Opera Company in London. His lanky 6-ft. 4-in. physique, tufted eyebrows, gargoyle nose and prickly Scotch burr soon made him a popular, villain. His first cinema, in 1912, was a talkie: an experimental version of Faust made at the Edison laboratories. His whiskers became really famed in the U. S. after Tol'able David, in which he was a Kentucky feudist with a homicidal mania. When...
...Louis; Homer Gage '82, Worcester; Joseph Lee '88, Boston; Jesse I. Straus '93, New York; Leverett Saltonstall '14, Boston; Charles A. Coolidge '81, Boston; Henry James '99, New York; William T. Gardiner '14, Gardiner, Me.; Charles F. Adams '88, Boston; George R. Agassiz 84, president, Boston; Allston Burr '89, Boston; Dwight P. Robinson '90, St. Davids, Pa.; Frederick Winsor '93, Concord; Minot Simons '91, New York; Daniel F. Jones, Boston; Albert A. Sprague '98, Boston; George Whitney '07, New York; Francis Parkman '19, Southboro; and Winthrop H. Wade '81, Boston...
Composer Sowerby's Prairie, like Carl Sandburg's poem which inspired it, aptly describes the hush which enwraps the flat midwestern farmlands, the far-away burr of threshing machines, the climactic glow of a sudden sunset and the grey, momentous calm which follows. A few carping critics were inclined to credit Poet Sandburg with most of the inspiration but the sharpness of Sowerby's musical perceptions, developed now into a unanimously praised skill at orchestration, showed itself long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living...