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Before the installation of the busts, the guests, including the artist and her husband, and Dean Cecil K. Drinker of the School of Public Health wee received by Dean John H. Williams of the Graduate School of Public Administration in his office and thence conducted to the Library where the veiled busts had been placed at either end of the mantlepiece over the fireplace. The busts were then unveiled, the Dean Williams briefly expressed the obligation of the University and of the Faculty of Public Administration to the artists and the donors...
Jock was an able drinker until his wife lost her leg. That day he swore off liquor, settled down to a steady, solid newspaper career. At least once he was offered a place on the Board of Police Commissioners, turned it down. For relaxation he cultivated roses in his garden. Jock knew more about the police department than most of its chiefs, and more about criminals. Of one bad man, who was shot by police, Jock said: "He had some splendid traits." Jock always meant to write his memoirs one day when he had time. Naturally that day never came...
...Savior through the medium of alcohol. . . . With so many various forms of culturally approved drinking, the amazing result is that we have so few persons emotionally dependent upon alcohol in some form. The teetotaler is, after all, equally as abnormal from the cultural standpoint as is the habitual drinker. . . . There is definite cultural relativity, and no universally valid generalization can be made as to what constitutes socially acceptable drunkenness...
...Even in those days," declared Mr. Suma, "I felt Mr. Wang's patriotic ardor, his zeal to construct a rejuvenated China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from...
...Throughout the country, they said, there are 19 rayon companies which use carbon disulfide. Some of them, like Du Pont at Wilmington, Del., take special pains to guard their employes from poisonous C52 fumes. American Viscose Co. cut down the hazard with a new ventilating system designed by Philip Drinker of Harvard. But hundreds of workers throughout the U. S. have been permanently disabled...