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Died. Murat Boyle, 47, president of the Missouri Bar Association, three Kansas City friends, and a pilot; when an airplane in which they were returning to Kansas City from fishing near Corpus Christi, Tex. lost its wings at Aransas Pass...
...works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most holy Feast of the Body of Christ, Corpus Christi, a legal holiday in all Latin countries...
Professor Garrod is at present a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, having been a member of Balliol as a student, and of Corpus Christi as a tutor. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he has also been Commander, since 1918, of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 1912 he edited the Oxford. Book of Latin Verse, and has written books of criticism on Keats, Collins and Wordsworth. He was at one time editor of the Journal of Philology...
Professor Elton, who lectured at Harvard in the spring of 1926, has been appointed lecturer in English for the year beginning next September. He received his M.A. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Durham, Manchester, Oxford, Edinburgh, and Liverpool. He was King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool from 1900 to 1925, and is the author of books discussing the early periods of English literature...
...Newark, N. J., Christi Cortzi, peanut man, drew his life savings of $4,000 from the bank, exchanged it for a bundle which, a friend told him, contained $36,000, but in which he found only old newspapers...