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Last week the New York Times printed the following dramatic despatch from Washington, Pa.: "Totally blind since she was less than a year old, 13-year-old Mary Grabowsky, second daughter of Walter Grabowsky, a poor miner of Coal Center, this county, walked out of the Washington Hospital today, scarcely able to conceal her delight and asking officers of the Red Cross to hurry her home that she might see her mother for the first time...
...scientists this despatch lacked professional interest. Such an operation, although delicate and demanding high skill in the use of fine knives, had been done previously and with relative frequency. But rarely before had human interest been keyed to so lofty a pitch...
...lodge of Manhattan economist Bernard Mannes Baruch. As the speedboat slithered up to a pier at Georgetown, last week, Mr. Baruch and Prince Louis hailed an ancient Negro hackman who drove them to the station. There His Highness entrained for Manhattan, after buying a newspaper. In it was a despatch from Manhattan, quoting Miss Anne Morgan (sister of famed J. P. Morgan) as saying that she considers "utterly without foundation and untrue" reports that she is engaged to Prince Louis. Paris papers had originated the story, had frenzied over the indisputable fact that His Highness would soon...
...Harvard, which is in Massachusetts, someone has thought of a new idea. It must have been a student." So runs a despatch, announcing the introduction of a system that allows students to drop in at classes whenever and wherever they please. Thinking it over, our own Liberal Arts School might see something in the idea, even if it does come from Harvard. There are at Penn State several men to whom students would be no means loathe to listen, and it is not beyond reason that these professors will welcome them. Aside from visits by self-declared eminents...
...Soldiers are still mopping up the city and executing suspects and looters by the wholesale." Critical readers of this despatch wondered why the forces of law and order were described by Consul Huston in such vague terms as "troops" and "soldiers." Whose troops? What soldiers? Very probably the harassed Consul did not know-perhaps no one knew. All that remains in Canton by way of "government" is a fluid group of military men whose leaders constantly bottle up one another. Their "troops," however, still retain the discipline and weapons needed to mop up a "rabble" led by "Russians...