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PHILOSOPHER'S HOLIDAY-Irwin Edman-Viking...
...Irwin Edman was 21 when he began teaching philosophy at Columbia University. On the campus one day shortly afterwards he met his old professor, Felix Adler. "What are you doing now?" inquired the professor. "Teaching," said Edman. "Teaching what?" "Philosophy," said Edman. The old man patted the open-faced, blond youth on the back. "How cute!" he said...
Died. May Irwin (Mrs. Kurt Eisfeldt), 76, famed oldtime comedienne, the toast of Broadway in the early 1900s; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. Her only cinema appearance (the 50-foot May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss, which Thomas A. Edison made) shocked the '90s. Some of the famed songs she introduced: Hear Dem Bells, After the Ball Is Over...
Year and a half ago tall, robust Edwin Augustus Lee conceived a stunt to dramatize these facts. Dr. Lee, a former San Francisco school superintendent, is director of the National Occupational Conference, which was founded in 1922-under the leadership of General Robert Irwin Rees, head of the A.E.F.'s University in France in 1918-19-to gather facts about jobs. Dr. Lee herded 13 top-rank public-school superintendents into a private Pullman and for ten days, with their expenses paid by the Carnegie Corporation, these superintendents toured the schools of eight cities. They found interesting experiments...
...like the foregoing (Chapel Wooing) have appeared in Chicago newspaper columns, over the nom de plume "Friar Tuck," for 20 years. Lank, bushy-browed Friar Tuck is a copyreader, feature-writer and religion editor for the Sunday Herald and Examiner. He is also, under his real name of Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, an Episcopal minister, rector for eleven years of Chicago's St. Stephen's, nicknamed "The Little Church at the End of the Road." Last week, upon the publication of Friar Tuck's latest thin volume of verse, Bishop George Craig Stewart named Rector Tucker...