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Courtly little George Eumorfopoulos is actually a British subject, born in Liverpool 71 years ago. Until his retirement last August he was vice president of a firm established in London since 1819: Ralli Brothers. Ltd.. private bankers and importers of rape, rice, cotton, hemp from India. The Rallis were of Greek origin, too. Importer Eumorfopoulos lives in London in a handsome house on the Chelsea Embankment, well known to Orientalists all over the world...
...present volume consists in the first part of essays on mediaeval religion, originally presented at the Forwood Lectures for 1934 at the University of Liverpool; the second part is "The Origins of the Romantic Tradition," which first appeared in the "Criterion"--like Mr. Ezra Pound, Mr. Dawson finds the essence of Romanticism, without XIXth century secretions, in the Provencel literary tradition, when literature and religion co-operated and collaborated, and the present dualism was yet unknown; the third part is a paper on "Piers Plowman." There is a central unity, however, for Mr. Dawson's concern throughout is with...
...COLONEL LINDBERG ARRIVING ON DAMSTERDYK" This telegram, received in a Liverpool shipping office, caused clerks, sailors, housewives and steamship officials to drop their work, swarm over the docks, prepare a rousing welcome for Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In the midst of a great din the Dutch freighter Damsterdyk tied up. Down the gangplank, blinking behind heavy spectacles, marched Colonel Irving Augustus Isaac Lindberg, High Commissioner of Nicaragua, Collector-General of Customs. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, whose biggest duty is to appease Nicaragua's foreign bondholders. Vastly disgruntled, the crowd drifted away...
...years Mrs. Ada Littlejohn has been a Gilbert & Sullivan addict. She has heard nearly every London performance, thought little of traveling to Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow to hear others. This week the D'Oyly Carte players gave their 100th Manhattan performance. For Mrs. Littlejohn, who goes five times a week, it was the 62nd. Singers in the company have come to regard the small white-haired lady as their mascot. She knows each time they make a mistake, lives with them in the Hotel Lincoln across from the theatre. For the performances she insists on buying...
Died. Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, 30, desperado; of gunshot wounds inflicted by Federal agents led by Melvin Purvis, Dillinger hero near East Liverpool, Ohio. Fortnight ago, after police learned he was one of three thugs responsible for the Union Station massacre in Kansas City last year, Floyd was flushed out of an Iowa farm (TIME, Oct. 22), badly wounded, chased through a half-dozen states to his death...