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John Winthrop House will dine as a body on Thursday evenings, Assistant Professor R. M. Ferry '12 states. In addition to having various members of the Faculty as guests, tutors and associates will be encouraged to bring their friends and students from other units will be welcome as guests. About once a month distinguished visitors will be invited to these dinners, and a number of undergraduates, chosen more or less at random, but with some regard to their particular interests, will sit at the staff table. President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T. will be the guest of honor...
...ring he dresses in loose, bright-colored clothes, snorts and smiles down at the jabbering crowd which always follows him. Immune to fear, ennui, embarrassment or surprise, he was not offended when boxing commissions suspended his activities in 33 States, nor humiliated when he was forbidden to dine with other guests in Atlantic City's smart Ambassador Hotel while attired in a green polo jersey. With the exception of his U. S. manager, handsome William ("Bill") Duffy, who was recently (TIME, June 29) catalogued as one of Manhattan's six foremost public enemies, all the members of Carnera...
...fight to oust Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. It was partly the family connection that made him head of the Rockefeller-controlled Equitable Trust. It is not probable that, like the crew of the Walloping Windowblind. Commodore Aldrich will ever be compelled to dine on the bark of the Rug-Bug tree or to traffic with a Chinese junk. A member of 18 clubs and seven directorates, including the board of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he can have contempt for the wildest blow on shore...
Members may not order dinner for any hour they choose or eat what they wish. The Squadron is run like a private house. If a member wishes to dine he must warn the steward before noon. Dinner is served at 8:30 at an enormous round table at which the senior officer present (who has already chosen what the members are to eat) is host. No checks are ever signed. Members are tactfully billed at the end of the month for what they have consumed...
Secretary Mellon sent his luggage to the Ritz and went to the Embassy to dine. There he and Ambassador Edge reviewed the French position on the Hoover plan. Next day after a formal luncheon he sat long and solemnly with Premier Laval. Later he matched figures and wits with Finance Minister Flandin. Then he went back to the Embassy and asked the tele- phone operator to get him the President of the U. S. His gentle voice promised Mr. Hoover a report, after further negotiations, on which the U. S. could base its reply to France...