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House of Commons: ¶ Commander Locker-Lampson, Under Secretary for Home Affairs, was asked by an irate private member who was responsible for selecting Jacob Epstein's memorial to William H. Hudson, the naturalist, whose stone effigy in panel (TIME, June 1, ART) is situate in Hyde Park. Comdr. Lampson replied: "The First Commissioner of Public Works in the Labor Government [Rt. Hon. F. W. Jowett]." A Labor Member hastened to say that a large number of people thought the memorial was distinguished and appropriate. Several Conservatives thought otherwise. One: That all memorials likely to cause acrimonious discussion...
Harold Joyce Noble A.B., Columbus, O., A.B. Ohio Wesleyan University 1924, History: Fritz Jules Roethlisberger 1G., Tomkinsville, N. Y., A.B. Columbia University 1921, B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1922, Candidate for A.M., Philosophy; Edward Perry Rubin, Senior in Heidelberg University, Tiffin, O., Social Ethics: Jacob Bernard Shohan 2G., Boston, A.B. 1916, Chemistry; Dietrich Conrad Smith A.M., St. Paul, Minn., A.B. University of Minnesota 1923, A.M. ibid, 1924, Zoology; Hanns Peter Swarzenski, Frankfort, Germany, Fine Arts; Charles Edwin Teeter Jr. 1G., Newark, N. J., A.B. 1923, Thayer Scholar, Chemistry...
Born. To Serge Platonovitch Obolensky Neledinsky Meletsky, Russian prince who claims descent from Rurik, founder of the Russian Monarchy, and Princess Obolensky (Alice Muriel Astor, daughter of the late John Jacob Astor), a son. The Prince's first wife was a daughter of Tsar Alexander...
...discreet and inaccessible nook of Hyde Park, London, Premier Stanley Baldwin unveiled, last week, a memorial to Naturalist W. H. Hudson by Sculptor Jacob Epstein. As the sheet that swaddled the work was drawn aside, a murmer of horror went up from the onlookers, many of whom, it was noticed, were old men-dignified seigneurs, others whose peaked countenances and obvious irascibility made it clear that they could come under no definition other than that of curmudgeon. They aimed trembling fingers at a panel of the memorial which was said to represent Rima, bird-nymph, a character in Hudson...
...quoth Jacob Epstein, "American-born Polish Jew." Now a man of 45, he has had a stormy career...