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...Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, the Hampton Institute quartet will give a concert in Kirkland House...
There will be a House supper at Eliot House Sunday at 6.30 o'clock. The Hampton Quartet will provide entertainment afterward in the Junior common room...
Died. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner, 48, fictionist, playwright, sportswriter; of heart disease and tuberculosis; in "No Visitors, N.Y.," his home at East Hampton, L. I. Born in Niles, Mich., packed off to engineering college by his parents, he failed every course but rhetoric, did no better as a freight agent and gas company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle...
...Washington University, St. Louis, removed a cancerous lung from a University of Pennsylvania obstetrician. Doris Yost had the good fortune to come under the bold eye of Dr. William Francis Rienhoff Jr., protégé and son-in-law of Johns Hopkins' eminent Urological Surgeon Hugh Hampton Young. Surgeon Rienhoff found that Doris Yost had a cancer in the passage to her left lung, which would soon block off her windpipe and strangle her. Cutting out the entire lung offered her only chance for life...
...including the Leviathan were sold. Under the Jones-White Act (1928) the Shipping Board loaned $122,573,485 for private U. S. shipbuilding (e. g. S. S. Manhattan, S. S. Washington). It was left operating 38 vessels on four small lines (American Pioneer, America France, American Republics, American Hampton Roads). Though always under fire for extravagance in its attempt to create a U. S. Merchant Marine, the Shipping Board closed its 17-year career without a major scandal and its functions were shifted to Ihe Department of Commerce...