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...munificent donor's name was bandied about last week in many a far-flung studio, for he has executed several rather unusual artistic gymnastics. In 1921 a group of gentry from Kansas City, opulent and patriotic, "backed" the local art museum in an offer to pay $500,000 for a DaVinci, "La Belle Ferroniere." Naturally a "La Belle Ferroniere" was soon forthcoming and the person who conjured it was not Sir Joseph Duveen, although he likes to be a major party in all big deals where the old masters and $500,000 are involved. The sale was about...
...horns in the Shoshones. One of the most readable chapters he ever wrote is called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn and Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews at the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan), and running a terrific, far-flung menu of elephant, loggerhead turtle, capybara (large South American rodent), howling-monkey, armadillo, iguana (lizard), Orinoco crocodile, diamond-back rattlesnake, stewed octopus, argus pheasant and muntjac ("barking-deer") in Borneo, sambar and gaur (deer) and manis (scaly anteater) in India...
...offense of lese-majesty has evidently become a felony in some parts of America's far-flung empire. Antonio D. Pagua, Councilman-elect of Manila, was convicted yesterday and sentenced to four months' imprisonment on a charge of having insulted Leonard Wood, the present governor-general of the Philippines. The culprit's offence had consisted of referring to the general in a recent political campaign as an "autocrat" and a "usurper of Philippine autonomy",--terms not altogether indefensible in view of the general's well-known partiality for military methods...
...score, on the basis of the forecast analysis, and the three complete upsets take some of the glory from the accurate Dartmouth-Chicago prognostication. Nothing, however, can dim the triumph of Joe Forecast's first attempt to guess a Harvard score. Harvard won, and Joe has saved his far-flung fame, his reputation, and his shirt...
...Harvard-Brown game today. Harvard will win, or else let the name of Joe Forecast be dragged forever in the dust. Harvard will win, or else never again let the pen of Joe Forecast be dipped to ink. Harvard will win or else Joe Forecast will lose his far-flung fame, his reputation, and his shirt...