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Pausing in Williamstown, Mass., last week, William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., uttered a geographical comment on U. S. education...
Elections. W. C. Coleman, wealthy lamp man of Wichita, Kan., was elected convention president for next year. Detroit was named 1928 convention city. The Rev. C. A. Brooks of Chicago was elected president of the American Baptist Foreign Society (missions), 1,585 'votes to 458 over J. Dabney Day of Los Angeles, fundamentalist candidate...
...Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan. Last month two Yale graduate students won Prix de Rome scholarships, in painting and sculpture (TIME, May 16). Last week the Prix de Rome judges decided the 1927 competition in architecture and again the winner was a Yale student-Homer Fay Pfeiffer of Kansas City, Kan., graduate of the University of Illinois. For his design of a small-city art museum, Mr. Pfeiffer can now spend three years at the American Academy in Rome with all expenses (about $7,000) paid...
...seven escaped unhurt. Major Harold A. Strauss, who was in command of this unfortunate blimp, recalled that another blimp of his had exploded on the same spot in 1922, that still another in his command had been torn loose from its moorings and wrecked by a gale in Leavenworth, Kan., only a fortnight ago. "A jinx," said...
...Katie" runs from St. Louis to Kansas City, Mo., then due south, parallel to the. K. C. Southern, through Parsons, Kan., Muskogee, Okla., Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston, Tex., to Galveston, Tex., on the Gulf of Mexico. Its commodities are those of the K. C. Southern, plus merchandise transshipped from the East at St. Louis...