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...your issue of Feb. 11, in your article on the dedication of the Singing Tower, you say that President Coolidge called the bells by the Americanized version of "karilon." As one who attended the dedication and heard all the speeches, I hasten to tell you that your informant was incorrect. President Coolidge was the only one present who said carillon in the French manner. All those connected with the building of the Tower call it "Karilon," with the accent on the first syllable...
Yesterday morning a witness testified that there was in the possession of the Museum here an X-ray picture of the Louvre copy of the disputed painting. Supreme Court Justice Black, desiring to hasten the conclusion of the case, urged that an air-plane be dispatched to bring the negative to New York, where, by a comparison with Mrs. Andree Lardoux Hahn's copy, it might decide which is the original...
Came a letter addressed to Elphege Daignault: ". . . the Sacred Congregation of the Council has ordered me to notify you that . . . you have incurred the penalty of excommunication. ... In communicating this to you I pray that, by the Grace of God, you may realize the gravity of your fault, and hasten to liberate yourself from the penalty which it has brought upon you. "Yours very sincerely, "P. Fumasoni-Biondi." Attorney Daignault became an outcast from his Church. To get reinstated he had humbly, sincerely to repent. Last week in Rhode Island they whispered that Dainault had at last repented, begged forgiveness...
...munificent Harkness gift to Harvard seems likely to hasten a process already going on--namely, the fronting of the university upon the Charles river...
General Electric and Westinghouse. who are working hard to hasten the commercialization of television, have a great fear−that the public may gull itself about this new entertainment. Last week Westinghouse's Vice President H. P. Davis warned: "Television, in so far as present accomplishments warrant, has been 'overplayed.' . . . Unfortunately, this has created the opportunity to foist on the public, much as in the early days of radio, a widespread sale of unsuitable apparatus, which those who purchase naturally expect will permit them to view television broadcasts, but which will only lead to disappointment and dissatisfaction...