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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Bao Dai gave vent to his Imperial feelings. "The future Queen, reared like us in France, combines in her person the graces of the West and the charms of the East. We who have had occasion to meet her believe that she is worthy to be our companion and our equal. We are certain by her conduct and example that she fully merits the title of First Woman of the Empire...
From a house on Manhattan's East 49th Street last week went news which joined Abby Rockefeller Milton; Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...
This year, housed in a five-story Georgian building on fashionable East End Avenue, Miss Chapin's school has 45 teachers, 380 students aged 6 to 18. Though in 1932 she relinquished her position as headmistress to her partner and housemate since 1911, Mary Cecilia Fairfax, sister of the 12th Baron Fairfax, Miss Chapin's ideas and personality have continued to dominate the school almost as strongly as ever. Even her passion for historic dates is still gratified. Beginning at 2,000 B.C., Chapin girls march down the centuries by memorizing some five dates each week. Almost...
Iraq. A director of diggers is Dr. James Henry Breasted, founder and head of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, foremost U. S. archeologist. Now 68, he has twelve lieutenants at work all over the Near East. Last year he visited them by airplane, brought back news of a great aqueduct built by Sennacherib (TIME, Jan. 1). Last month he went to Manhattan to receive from the hands of a special messenger the most important find any of his men have made this year-a clay tablet no bigger than Primo Camera's hand, bearing four columns...