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...backed, fringed, 50-pound piano stool which is as indispensable to Paderewski's playing as the piano itself. Waiting for him in Manhattan was the private Pullman which will be his home during the next three months. Waiting also was his faithful piano-tuner, grey-haired Boston-born Eldon Joubert, who has accompanied him on all his U. S. tours since...
...Idaho Falls, Idaho, Eldon Cleverly was sentenced to jail for attempted rape. His pregnant wife promptly went to Boise, paraded through the State Capitol corridors, announced: "I will walk up and down till something is done for my husband. I'll have my baby in the hallways." Impressed, Governor Barzilla Clark let it be known that he would appeal to the State Pardon Board for the prisoner, because "such action on my part may be warranted...
...professors who signed the protest are as follows: Joseph H. Beale '82, Royall Professor of Law; Joseph Warren '97, Weld Professor of Law; Samuel Williston '82, Dane Professor of Law; Sheldon Gluock, professor of Criminology; and Ralph J. Baker, Morton C. Campbell, George K. Gardner '12, Erwin N. Griswold, Eldon R. James, W. Barton Leach '21, John M. Maguire, William E. McCurdy '16, Warren A. Seavey '02, Sidney Post Simpson, James B. Thayer '31, Edward S. Thurston '98, Edward H. Warren '95, all professors of Law, and Livingston Hall, assistant professor...
James Ramsay MacDonald advised King George to appoint this Royal Commission in one of his last acts as Prime Minister, naming as chairman benevolent, octogenarian Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. Sittings last week were in the half-moon-shaped, oak-paneled Council Chamber of ancient Middlesex Guildhall opposite Westminster Abbey. Acoustics were so poor that proceedings could not be heard in the gallery...
...year-old chairman of Britain's Royal Arms Inquiry Commission (TIME, March 4), Sir John Eldon Bankes, last week watched his eminently dignified investigation skid off into the ditch of sensationalism. First a spokesman for 26 peace organizations uprose to charge that two members of the present Cabinet owned shares in the great munitions firm of Vickers: the Right Honorable Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary for the Colonies (25 shares); and the Right Honorable Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary (3,066 shares). "It cannot be healthy," said the peace spokesman, "if it is known that members of the Cabinet...