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...Salon has preceded the more plebeian Automobile Show. In Manhattan last week was held the 26th Salon, fresh from Chicago. When the week in Manhattan was over, 225 cars had been sold, $1,950,000 taken in. a new record. Throngs gathered to be bedazzled by luxurious displays, to inspect innovations. Most of the exhibitors were not motor-makers, but famed builders of customs bodies. Packard displayed one of its own bodies, but Derham. Dietrich, Le Baron, Rollstdn and Waterhouse also displayed bodies on Packard chassis...
...Yorkers who had $1 and the inclination were given opportunity last week to inspect 82 objects that made up the greatest collection of medieval art ever to come to the U. S.-one of the greatest in the world-the Welfenschatz or Guelph Treasure...
...finding appears in a book by Dr. Harlan Paul Douglass, 59, research director of the Institute of Social & Religious Research, Manhattan* issued last week by the Institute. The book is a thoroughgoing survey of church federations of 24 cities and two States. The federations had asked the Institute to inspect their condition. Dr. Douglass found their condition unsatisfactory. After more than 20 years activities there is a "general avoidance of any attempt to find a basic philosophical and religious ground-work" for the federation movement. As a rule worshippers are more willing than ministers to cooperate in federations. The clergy...
From Kalgan he made his way to Tatung, visited the bat-haunted Imperial Cave Temples of the Wei Dynasty, thence to Saratsi in Suiyuan District to inspect China's greatest irrigation project, a dam being built under the supervision of O. J. Todd, U. S. engineer, to harness the mighty yellow River, "China's Sorrow," and attempt to control its perennial floods...
...York and Atlanta had a chance last week to inspect the work of a spectacular newcomer to the world of art. In Atlanta's High Museum of Art were 46 water colors, in New York's Arden Galleries 16 more, by Douglas Brown, Indian- blooded Harvard...