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...House lawn. President Coolidge was to greet them; but the miserable weather might cause aggravation of the bad cold that had kept him confined to bed the fore part of the week. There was talk of dissuading him from the ceremony. However, the rigor of the weather did not deter the President. He appeared, bundled in a great raincoat, wearing sensible rubbers. Beside him posed Mrs. Coolidge, hale, gracious, benign...
Railroad stock transactions (see p. 25) did not deter Otto Hermann Kahn; nor did cancer studies (TIME, Feb. 14) deter Robert Fulton Cutting. Mr. Cutting is chairman of the Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Co.; Mr. Kahn chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Their directorates met last week. Said Mr. Cutting's directorate: We will build you a new theatre on West 57th street, Manhattan, to hold 5,000 people, to have 32 parterre boxes. Stockholders must pay $145,000 to own a 1/32 interest in the property and to use boxes twice a week. "Agreed," said Mr. Kahn...
...There is nothing superlatively able about the story's hero, Alan Wheelock, but he is swept to wealth, and away to New York, because he happens to learn shorthand at the right time. Contrariwise, the innocence and integrity which he inherits from his oak-hearted grandfather deter him from capturing the heroine, Blanche Holden (whose Democrat father is being swept into profiteering realty) ahead of the artistic cosmopolite, Roy Norcross, who fritters away his talents and makes Blanche miserable on two continents. Hero Alan meantime makes the best of a second fiddle wife, Leta, who goes...
...week saw the expiration of Premier Baldwin's time-limited offer of a coal subsidy to follow an agreement between the miners and owners. In the Commons, former Labor Premier Macdonald scathingly asked whether this offer had been intended as a bribe. Even this jibe did not deter Premier Baldwin from renewing his offer, this time without limit, in an effort to foster conciliation...
...sense of balance. The only people to worry about in this regard are the men who are in the minority: the players themselves. These can be saved their equilibrium if the college don't deity the Red Granges and if they keep down the hours of practice which deter men from their other interests. The apotheosis of the game lies only with the public There is no justifiable reason why the players should be deprived of the good effects of participation in football just as it stands today or why the undergraduate bodies of the colleges should lose their enthusiasm...