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Appointed. Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer, 53, of the Bank of England, member of the League of Nations Financial Committee since 1922; to be president of the Bank for International Settlements, succeeding Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip of Holland; in Basle, Switzerland...
Saint Lydwina of Holland, when a sickly virgin of 15, was persuaded in the winter of 1395 to rise from her sickbed and go skating upon the ice. No sooner had she ventured out on her runners than a rude young woman crashed into her, knocked her flat and broke her rib. "With unimaginable wailing of virgins," St. Lydwina was carried back to bed where she remained for the next 38 years in constant agony, relieved only by angelic visions...
Harvard Spares -- Mechem, Roberts, Cutter, Jameson, Patrick, Pope, Emerson, Ecker. Queens Spares -- Hepburn, Holland, Cowley, Guy, Catlin, Gibson, Carver, McGill...
Cornells Bol talks wittily in his imperfect English, likes sloppy, comfortable clothes, has a plump wife and five chubby sons for whom he keeps a horse and a ponycart. Born in Holland 52 years ago, he came to the U. S. in 1907 to study at Princeton, Stanford, the University of Montana, returned in 1916 to his native land where he worked on the development of sodium vapor lamps in the Philips laboratories and devised a way of sealing chrome steel to glass in X-ray apparatus. Last autumn he again bobbed up at Stanford as a research assistant. "Europe...
...Norwegians and Swedes lead the world in ice boating. They took the craft from Holland where they were used for winter canal travel. The Stockholm Ice Yacht Club has the largest active ice boat fleet of any club...