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Married. James H. Roper, engineer, eldest son of Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper; and Elizabeth May Armstrong, high school librarian of San Leandro, Calif.; in San Francisco. Few weeks ago police were sent to investigate Engineer Roper's presence in Libra rian Armstrong's home by Mrs. Evelyn Aylesworth, head of the Physics Department at Mills (Oakland Women's College). Mrs. Aylesworth said that she, not Librarian Armstrong, was Engineer Roper's No. 1 fiancee...
...magazine was The Golden Book, was published by the Review of Reviews Corporation. An editorial note explained: "The original Libra D'Oro, the Golden Book of Venice, was the official list of the Venetian nobility, who alone could vote or hold office in that remarkable republic of aristocrats." This Golden Book, then, was for a literary aristocracy, "not of birth, but of performance." It was a new monthly anthology of classic fiction, the sort of volume you might make up unconsciously by rummaging during a month of evenings among the master tale-tellers in your library. The editors-Henry...
...poetic offerings are timely. Mr. Skinner boldly adopts "vers libra"; Mr. Nelson chooses a compromise--stanzas of two, three, or four lines, and a rhyme-scheme which wanders into couplets and out again. Three other poets show the influence of the season in a "Ballad of Love," a "Love Dream," and a "Call of the Spring." Two of these are examples of amatory pantheism, somewhat obscurely though not ineffectively expressed. Mr. Nelson's effort is simpler, clearer, more cheerful, and on the whole more pleasing...
...libraries in Harvard Hall and the classical and historical libra ires in Warren House will be open as usual, except on Christmas...
...Being below the equator and travelling southward, it is rather unfavorably situated for observation. No observations have as yet been taken at the Observatory, but from the data at hand, it may be said, speaking roughly, that the comet can be seen a little before sunrise in the constellation Libra, several degrees northwest of the bright reddish star Autares in Scorpio. A photograph taken at the Lick observatory December 8, by A. L. Colton, shows the tail to be composed of one long streamer and several short ones. The principal streamer is much curved. The comet may now be seen...