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Born fortnight ago, Baby Prince Baudouin, second in succession to the Belgian crown, son of Crown Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid of Sweden, was almost immediately invested with six names, honoring both his parents' royal families. But Belgian editors scanning the catalog of names were scandalized to note that the founder of the Belgian royal house, King Leopold I (Queen Victoria's "wise Uncle Leopold") had been omitted. Next day little Prince Baudouin was officially amended to read: "Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave," gained a pound...
Secretary Wrexham never sees his employer, who goes abroad after hiring his secretary solely on the strength of his letter of application. Wrexham's only duties are to live in Scrivener's London flat, catalog his library, receive his friends, write occasional reports to the absent employer. One by one Scrivener's friends turn up in search of him, get acquainted with Wrexham, tell him what they think of Scrivener. Each description is different. None of the friends have met, but through Wrexham they become intimate. Complications ensue. Soon Wrexham is convinced that the whole business...
...Ward & Co. wrote 10,000,000 letters last week. Gist of the letters was that prices had been cut drastically, time payments would henceforth be allowed on purchases of $25 and over. At once President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co. told reporters: "Prices in the new autumn catalog of Sears, Roebuck & Co. are the lowest in ten years." Cause: suggested in President Everitt's statement that "we are placing orders for millions of dollars' worth of merchandise at the new low commodity levels." Effects: in Wall Street the fact that the price cuts came on the same...
...back in Paris, leader of the Six? whose modern musical renown grew from their union. For some critics even then Milhaud stood apart. Some professed to find a queer, shadowy beauty in his music. Others dismissed him as crude, trifling, freakish (he once set a florist's catalog to music for voice and chamber orchestra). Several important Berlin opinions sided with these last and with the ill-mannered boos which swept the Staatsoper after Christopher Columbus. The music was "thin," a "European scandal." All agreed that Claudel's play was the great contribution, that he at least had shown imagination...
...time when the Catalog first appeared in 1875, the total number of degree holders was 15,712 in comparison with the 1930 figure of 65,584. Since 1875, this Quinquennial Catalog has furnished complete lists of all degree holders, living and dead, of the University. In this new edition, several hundred pages had to be added to bring the lists up to date...