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Last week the following were news: William G. Mather, Cleveland tycoon, president of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. (miner of iron ore in Minnesota and Michigan, operator of a fleet of 20 Great Lakes freighters, manufacturer of charcoal and wood chemicals), last week retired from active management of the company which was given him in 1891 by his father, the founder. Elected to the newly created post of chairman, he was succeeded as president by Edward B. Greene, chair-man of the executive committee of Cleveland Trust...
Into the eastern sky over the English Channel vanished Harold J. L. ("Bert") Kinkier last January, off from England to regain his oldtime speed record to Australia. He was not sighted again. Last week in the Pratomagno Woods near Florence, Italy a group of charcoal burners stumbled upon the wreckage of an airplane. About 30 feet away lay a body identified by clothing marks as Pilot Hinkler's. Propeller and engine of the plane were buried in the mountainside. The remainder of the ship was intact, including a full fuel tank...
...read most of Tacitus. Unsuccessful, she returned to the sirocco, fleas, dirt and picturesque boredom of Sardinia. Like all Northerners with noses she was chiefly impressed by the smell: "A little rotten seaweed and fish, a great deal of dirt, tomatoes and paprikas frying in oil, sardines roasting over charcoal fires, garlic, overripe figs, grapemust. tar and pitch from the boats, cheap Virginia tobacco, richly overflowing gutters, and fishing nets hung out to dry. And over and above all, like a dominating undertone, the salt freshness...
...Misleading Lady (Paramount) is an old-fashioned little absurdity which gives Claudette Colbert a chance to be cunningly indignant. She wriggles, squeals, wears a smudge of charcoal on her cheek and cries, "Let me go, let me go," or "I would like to kill you!" This is because she has trifled with the affections of a morose young traveler (Edmund Lowe) just returned from sojourning with aborigines. He has paid her back by abducting her to his shooting lodge and attaching her to a leash intended for pet bears...
...ties enough? Might not they find there way into the tar barrel along with the charcoal sheet? They might, And anyway does a noose around the neck convey the full meaning of Lowell House? So rumour has it that there may be a bauble cast in deathless bronze which neither moth nor dust can corrupt, something a little distinctive on the watch chain. But this is only rumour and Harvard must wait until at last Lowell House will find some charm...