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...world Press last week went a photograph of a small, solemn baby just four months old. It was the first official portrait of His Celestial Highness Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan (see cut). That this sober infant may inherit an empire as great as it is venerable, Japan's ministers last week risked once more the world's wrath...
...prize money. Since then he has sired 131 colts; for his stud services his owner Samuel D. Riddle gets $5,000. Man o' War's offspring have won more than $1,800,000. As to their character, horsemen differ. Some of them are considered to inherit the cantankerous, gloomy disposition of their father while racing. Man o' War, still called "Big Red" by stable boys, was a glutton and had to wear a muzzle between meals to prevent him from swallowing stones, sticks, or bits of harness. Grown milder and 160 lb. heavier with...
...successor, Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, did not inherit his father's flamboyant sense of salesmanship. Quiet and methodical, he likes to fiddle with machinery and motor boats, keep out of the limelight. But in the dark days of February 1933 he astounded conservative businessmen by upping Wrigley wages 25%. And he was the first to put the Blue Eagle on his gum packages. Last week Gummaker Wrigley again made news by announcing a $1,000,000 employes' "assurance" plan. "In talking with workers in our factories," said he, "I discovered that their chief worry...
...accepts his daughter's marriage to a "medicaler" with bitter resignation but he is overjoyed when she bears a boy who, he believes, will inherit the Hofnagel power. When the baby contracts diphtheria Hofnagel prevents his son-in-law from administering antitoxin by shooting him in the shoulder, kills the baby with his own mumbo-jumbo. These events are developed in a sharp atmosphere of authenticity, tautly directed by Arthur Beckhard, expert handler of family groups (Another Language). Good performances: William F. Schoeller as Hofnagel, Jules Epailly as a rival wizard, Victor Kilian as a slow-witted yokel...
...inauguration of the House Plan. The whole University has felt the dominating personality of the President and rejoiced in the free and vigorous intellectual atmosphere which his firm stand insured even in times of great stress. An eventful and significant epoch in Harvard History has closed. We who inherit the fruits of his labors unite in wishing President Lowell a long life and much happiness in the well-earned rest of his retirement...