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...have less in common. Yet one day last week several smiling members of the Japanese Legation in Athens joined several swart Greek Cabinet Ministers on a little steamer and rolled out to the Ionian island of Leucadia (Santa Maura) to honor a common pride: the late exotic Lafcadio Hearn...
...Irish Free State. New York and New Orleans might appropriately have joined the celebration. Self-named in honor of his birthplace, Lafcadio Hearn was the son of a Greek woman and an Irish surgeon-major stationed on the island during the British occupation that followed Waterloo. After indefinite schooling at a Roman Catholic College in Great Britain he went to the U. S., worked as a waiter in New York, then moved to Cincinnati where State laws prevented his marrying his octoroon mistress. Next move was to New Orleans where he worked on the Times Democrat, wrote the sketches...
...spirit must be written by a man with insight and sympathy, and, above all, long familiarity with his subject. W. H. Hudson lived in Patagonia as a child and knew the Pampas through and through, even if Guedalla does accuse him of making it a vast bird sanctuary. Lafcadio Hearn knew Japan in the same way. Mr. Guedalia understands the implications of the Monroe Doctrine. He is careful to point out the advantages of the Argentine's economic dependence on Great Britain, which is best strengthened by the indulgence of the beef eating Englishman. In fact, his wit is considerably...
...ushers are: A. J. Barrett '33, A. H. Bill '35, K. W. Brown '35, S. C. Porman '33, C. B. Ferguson '33. R. H. Raig '33, W. H. Harris 1G., M. F. Hearn '34. D. M. Matthews 1L., William McNett '33, J. R. Morison '35, A. S. Pier '35, C. H. Pratt '33, O. W. Robbins '34, Lanning Roper '33, T. W. Thorndike '33, and R. H. Weed...
...Hodson of the New York Welfare Council, Lawyer Jerome Frank, Vice President Sheldon R. Coons of Lord & Thomas (advertising), one-time Mayor Henry Thomas Hunt of Cincinnati, Morris Greenberg of Paramount Publix Corp., Parole Director Winthrop D. Lane of the State of New Jersey. John M. Kaplan, proprietor of Hearn's department store in Manhattan, many a New York college professor. Hessian Hills' aim is a socialized group in which the pupils feel a sense of communal enterprise and responsibility. Much of its success has resulted from the intelligence and enthusiasm of the parents. Any feeling of competition...