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...from San Francisco to New York, Baron Henri de Rothschild, practicing physician, essayist, playwright, perfumer, big game hunter, winemaker but no banker (TIME, May 20), was asked by Chicago newshawks about international finance, the position of the franc. Shrugged Dr. de Rothschild: "It's too early in the morning to talk about world finance...
...horses, British women. Last week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built a $2,000,000 theatre in Paris, a perfumer, big-game hunter, winemaker. At the San Francisco pier to meet him on the return half of a round-the-world trip were his auto-racing Son Phillippe and his daughter...
whimsical essayist and scholarly Medievalist, will teach with five other Medieval scholars in its Institute of Medieval Studies. Their object: "To bring Medieval philosophies to bear on present social, economic and political problems...
Physician-Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Justice's father, was and still is popularly famed as a poet and essayist. But the fame of his pioneer work in conquering the scourge of puerperal (childbed) fever will be fresh when The Chambered Nautilus and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table are moldering on scholars' shelves. So, too, his own world has saluted Mr. Justice Holmes as the first jurist and first gentleman of his time. But the world a century hence may well honor him best as a great philosopher, whose creative thought chanced to be channelled into...
...FOOL OF LOVE-Hesketh Pearson- Harper ($3.50). Sympathetic, lively biography of the late great Essayist William Hazlitt...