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...social science promoter, he was first if not foremost a lawyer-the sort of genial, persuasive, energetic man who takes naturally to public life without becoming a politician, the sort of man who might have become an inner councilor of the New Deal if his tastes and convictions had lain in that direction. Brother of the Riverside Church's Rector Harry Emerson Fosdick, he was born 54 years ago in Buffalo, graduated in 1905 from Princeton (to which university the Rockefellers have now given $700,000), emerged from New York Law School in 1908. Under Mayor McClellan...
...heavy-shouldered Los Angelean named Harold Morton, in 1933 brought suit against both Herbert Fleishhacker and the Anglo Bank in connection with the sale in 1915-17 of oil lands in Kern County, Calif, which belonged to the Lazards. The suit asked damages of over $1,000,000, has lain dormant ever since...
Credited with having uttered the foregoing statements, and many more besides, during the five weeks he had lain abed, Pope Pius XI ended last week feeling fairly comfortable. Day after day the world Press had had the Holy Father about to die, but not until last week did the Vatican issue an official statement of his condition. In contrast to the vague "Vatican Voices" of anonymous prelates to whom newshawks attributed contradictory stories, the statement in precise terms detailed the Pope's ailments as: "a diffuse process of arteriosclerosis, with prevalent localization in a lowering of the heart...
...main story deals with Thomas Sutpen, an ambitious planter who settled near Jefferson, Miss, in 1833. Another tale deals with Quentin Compson, a Harvard freshman born and raised in Jefferson, who. in 1910, tried to figure out what had lain behind the Sutpen tragedy. A third deals with Rosa Coldfield, Sutpen's sister-in-law, and with Quentin's father, who told Quentin what they knew of the Sutpens. (Still a fourth story can be detected only by readers of The Sound and the Fury.) Thus readers must not only figure out what happened to the Sutpens...
Have you ever snooped with a camera? Have you ever lain in wait for a famous fellow to make a fool of himself? Have you ever sneaked away with your camera under your coat felling sure that you have taken the one picture in millions that shows a true expression? Unusual pictures will be more and more in demand in the future, and the college is rich ground where they wait for an ogle-eyed photographer to find them...