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...bust of "Ned" Doheny, in naval uniform, is now on view in a brand new brick & limestone Romanesque building on the Southern California campus. The clan Doheny assembled to see the building dedicated last week on the first day of the U. S. C. year. It was the Edward L. Doheny Junior Memorial Library, built with $1,100,000 donated from their many millions by Mr. & Mrs. Doheny Senior, Mrs. Leigh Battson, who is "Ned" Doheny's widow, and his children Lucy Estelle, Edward III, William Henry, Patrick Anson, Timothy Michael. After many a speech...
Legend says that once a youth of the Snake Clan, one Tiyo, forbidden to marry a clanswoman he loved, went away to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and plunged into the rushing water. He was swept into the underground realm of the immortal Snake people. He fell in love with one of their women, but when he embraced her, she and all the underground Snake people turned into real snakes. This did not dismay valiant Tiyo; so the snakes became people again and Tiyo took his bride back to his tribe on the mesa. But all of their offspring...
LARK ASCENDING?Mazo de la Roche?Little, Brown ($2.50). Small-town bohemians junketing abroad?a far cry from the W'hiteoak clan...
...Author- In 1883, into an atmosphere reeking with literary and dramatic talent, Edward Montague Compton (Mackenzie is his ancestors' clan name) was born. His father was an able actor; his aunt was "Leah" Bateman, famed Lady Macbeth; his actress sister Fay Compton still holds the boards. After Oxford he took to writing plays, finally to novel-writing. He fought in the War, was invalided out as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and O. B. E. After the War he leased from King George one of the Channel Islands, Jethou, stocked it with 10,000 books...
...Galleries. The smart and art sets were gathered, 500 strong, for a gala tea. There was Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, pouring, looking pale & wan; crippled Robert Hall McCormick cheerily greeting everyone from his wheel chair; Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey McCormick; Mrs. Fowler (Fifi Stillman) McCormick. and many another of the Clan McCormick. Ill abed, Harold McCormick sent roses. A late arrival?he had been to the funeral of Packer Edward Foster Swift (TIME, June 6)?was Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. For him especially this was an important event. It was the opening of an exhibition...