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...week from today, Harvard will play host to a convention of college business officers who come from everywhere in the Eastern States. Harvard Square will team with comptrollers; the Yard will buzz with bursars. Indeed, little bursars will learn tricks from big bursars; and vest-pocket colleges will henceforth command the services of their one hired man with all the aplomb of Mr. Apted himself...
...Childs reveals himself to be, one who is already well on the way to education and who possesses an enviable command of the English language, should see the university in this light shows that something is wrong with Yale which House Plans will not remedy. This is not the buzz of an undergraduate mosquito; it is a serious indictment of one of the leading American universities. It should be taken seriously. The Nation...
European papers have been buzzing for weeks, still buzz, with the preposterous story that Crown Princess Maria Jose of Italy shot Jeannette MacDonald on the Riviera last winter, blinding her in one eye. Gullible European editors did not (U. S. editors promptly did) wire to Hollywood and discover that Miss MacDonald was at that precise moment cinemacting undamaged...
Barney Oldfield, king bee of the speedway buzz wagons, drove his Green Dragon around and around a dirt track at Barbee's Park in South Joplin. Clouds of choking dust failed to strangle cheers of the thousands (correct) in an inadequate frame grandstand and lining the track. An exhibition, Speedster Oldfield raced only against time. That...
Married. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 32, flyer, son of the one-time publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, grandson of the late John Wanamaker, onetime husband of Mrs. William Kissam (Rosamund Lancaster) Vanderbilt; and Mrs. Evelyn Hall Pierce, 27, divorced last week from H. Denny Pierce, Manhattan broker; in Chicago...