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Honored-Connecticut's Governor Wilbur Lucius Cross, with the Montclair Yale Bowl, as a Yaleman who has "won his Y in life"; Dr. George E. Hale, honorary director of the Mount Wilson Observatory (Pasadena, Calif.), by the British Royal Society's Copley Medal, for work on the sun's magnetic field; Nobel Prizeman Dr. Fritz Haber, by the Royal Society's Rumford Medal, for work in thermodynamics; Munich Professor Richard Willstatter by the Davy Medal, for organic chemistry researches; Cambridge Professor Dr. James Chadwick, by the Hughes Medal, for demonstrating the existence of neutrons (TIME, March...
...Mike opened when funds arrived from the Northwest, won over many from the anti-Romanoff faction. The news spread with magical rapidity through the ancient seat of learning that a new and important "green pea," or inexhaustible spender, had been discovered. The greatest of Mike's parties at the Copley-Plaza was attended by representatives of many feudal houses of Boston. The Prince put a sudden stop to his grandiose hospitality in order to punish the hotel for presenting a bill. "This is most presumptuous," said Mike. "My people are accustomed to receive annual statements only. I shall never patronize...
...then there is the witchery which the polished buttons, the gold braid, the snug capes, cast over even the most surfeited debutante; fortunately those crisp commands prevent a military encounter under the chandeliers of the Copley. Last there is the rumor, the vague suspicion, that the librettist who conceived "In the Army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow," was nearly half right...
...Copley--"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary," a farcical comedy by St. John Ervine, with E. E. Clive...
...Copley--"The Squeaker" or "The Sign of the Leopard." Edgar Wallace as a writer of light comedy. Does not amount to much...