Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close to the final stages by the end of the week. W. J. Iselin '29 is slated to play the winner of the match between A. G. Thacher '29 and L. Wheeler, Jr. of the Union Boat Club. Iselin, who is seeded first in the tourney, is expected to go on to a fifth round match with B. C. Perkins of the Cambridge Squash and Racquets Club very soon...
Since Sultan Ibn Saud is no friend of Great Britain, planes of the Royal Air Force roared out with alacrity from the British war base in Trans-Jordania to bomb the Arabs who had killed U. S. Missionary Bilkerd. As aviators go, those of the R. A. F. are a kindly and efficient lot, although one of them bombed and killed a detachment of British native troops near Peshawar, British India, last week, quite by accident. Those who flew out to avenge Dr. Bilkerd, however, returned with all their bombs intact, having seen no bandits...
...Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, Harry Marks, Gabriel Wells or some other gentleman who collects books for profit or passion. Dr. Rosenbach (Alice In Wonderland inan) raised his hand vertically many times at the Kern sale* but three times he kept it in his pocket. Three times he refused to go on with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley's Queen Mob, $68,000; Lamb's contribution to Hone's Table Book, $48,000; Pope's Essay on Man, $29,000; Edgar...
Resigned. Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson, executive vice president of Victor Talking Machine Co.; to go camera-hunting in Africa.* Resigned. The Very Rev. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, "to devote himself to preaching and literary work" and also because of much-bruited differences of opinion between himself and the Cathedral's Bishop William Thomas Manning (TIME...
...matter of no small moment. In time, Editor High and Chain-Store Tycoon James Cash Penney, who is president of the Christian Herald Association, Inc., hope to have their award rated as a sort of Nobel prize for religion. Unlike the Nobel prizes, however, Christian Herald awards will go to none but U. S. citizens...