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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back from the American Pro-Cathedral in Paris to sun-swept Mt. St. Alban, highest point in Washington, D. C., will be brought the body of Norman Prince, founder of France's Lafayette Escadrille, there to be sepulchred within the Washington National Cathedral. Bishop James Edward Freeman made the announcement last week, together with a statement that Norman Prince's father, Frederick Henry Prince of Prides Crossing, Mass., who was mentioned for U. S. Ambassador to France (TIME, April 15), had made a "generous gift" toward the construction of a $200,000 chapel in the south choir aisle...
...Pippa in Pippa Passes when, having interviewed Mary Pickford, he said, "That girl would be a pip as Pippa." From $40 per week in one-reel Biograph features, she advanced, first under Griffith, then with other companies, to $2,000 a week in 1915, when she was called the highest salaried woman in the world. Now, married to Douglas Fairbanks, she makes .over $1,000,000 per annum and makes special trips to Washington about her income tax. Shrewd, energetic, an able organizer, she keeps her husband's accounts, is the director of a bank and of several business...
...Australian butter. "Any such policy of preference," said the Secretary, "must be based on quality. We can never ask the people of this country in the long run to pay a high price for the mere sake of Empire preference unless the butter offered them is of the highest quality. After my experience today I have only praise for the quality of Australian butter...
...passionate defense of "our team." Italian editors shrieked to highest heaven that the Austrian team had "played foul," that the flag of Italy had not floated over the stadium, and that the Austrian brass band had played the old Italian royal hymn-obviously a gross insult to Fascisti who never sing anything except their own anthem, "Youth! Youth! Springtime of Beauty!" The umpire of the match, an Englishman, disqualified two Italians for roughness. Broken lanyards prevented the hoisting of the Italian flag. The Austrian bandmaster had no Fascist sheet music, supposed that the Italian royal anthem was the correct thing...
...engineering, interior decorating, landscape architecture, plumbing - much of the space was devoted to the Allied Arts. The architectural gamut ran through garages, houses, churches, public buildings, reached a skyward climax in Manhattan Architect William Van Alen's plans for the new Chrysler Building, to be world's highest (68 stories), now under construction in midtown Manhattan. Everywhere apparent was the tendency toward simplification of form, and the invention of new forms rather than reliance on archaeology. Colorists now apply a vivid spectrum to polychrome decoration and colored tiles. Aviation architecture proved a feature instead of a novelty...