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...Game of Names." The New York Post had only 60,000 circulation when David Stern bought it from Curtis-Martin year ago. The new owner tried to change the paper from a genteel, arch-Tory organ to a rowdy New Deal standardbearer. He succeeded mainly in making it a sensational hodgepodge. By fits & starts, the Post claimed to have 75,000 steady readers when it began its "Game of Names" contest last August...
Many an old New England fortune founded on that respectable word, "rum," has been very nearly dissipated by that reprehensible word, "utilities." Those remaining "genteel poverty" holders of utility stocks should be heartened by the acquittal yesterday of Sam Insull, hounded by a vengeful government in every far corner of the world, only to be hailed "not guilty" by the courts. This verdict following on the heels of the recent Tennessee pronouncements may mark the nadir of utility disrepute. Perhaps the majority of utility stocks have at last passed into nobler and purer hands who will at some later time...
Socialite but not smart is Brearley School. It has never wanted to be smart. The fathers who persuaded Samuel Brearley of Harvard and Balliol to found it were disgusted with the genteel finishing schools of the 1880s. They wanted their daughters to be as well prepared as their sons for college. When Founder Brearley died in 1886 they got for headmaster, James G. Croswell, an old-school classicist from Harvard. In 28 years he set a scholarly tone which Brearley has never lost. In the select sisterhood of Manhattan's half-dozen famed private schools for girls it retains...
...self-made man. Sent to the Luchu Islands as a Government teacher, he displayed marked talents for conviviality, enjoyed wining, dining and the entertainment of geisha girls at "The House of the Wind and the Moon," found pleasure in a "tropical romance" with a "faithful courtesan" in a genteel house of entertainment, piled up debts. He resisted efforts of lady matchmakers to marry him off to one of the local girls, but finally permitted his best friend to pick a stranger for his wife. The marriage has been a perfect success. Noma returned to Tokyo and an administrative position...
Laid in the friendly hands of receivers last year (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934), famed old Chautauqua Institution was far from dead. Arthur Eugene Bestor, its president, made plans for the 1934 season, mapped out a money-raising campaign. This summer Chautauquans returned to their cottages, clubs and classes, their genteel recreations on the shores of Lake Chautauqua. But until last week they were not sure how long the Institution could carry on. Then, at the close of exercises celebrating the 60th anniversary of its founding, President Bestor announced: "This evening Chautauqua has received the largest aggregate gift in its history...