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...Eighteen years ago Henry C. Lytton, 69, retired as active head of The Hub, one of Chicago's big medium-priced clothing stores. He turned his job over to his son George Lytton. Last fortnight Son Lytton died. Six days later Father Lytton, now 87, sat down at his son's desk, once more became Hub's president...
CHARACTERS & COMMENTARIES-Lytton Strachey-Harcourt, Brace ($3). Selections covering 30 years of the late Strachey's essays, containing several never before printed...
Today's generation is beginning to look back on the Victorian Age with a kinder eye than its fathers did. The late Lytton Strachey et al. laid the 19th Century's haunting ghost with many a mocking exorcism; succeeding scholars are now finding a sympathetic task in recreating its soul. A sign of the times, this latest study of Poet-Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his earnest men is a credit not only to its authoress' heart but to her scholarship and her mind. Poor Splendid Wings got the pre-eminence over 800 other...
...also a doctor. They became fast friends. General McCoy married his niece, was his aide-de-camp in Cuba and the Philippines. The man was General Leonard Wood. Famed as a troubleshooter, General McCoy was sent to supervise the Nicaraguan presidential election of 1928, went to Manchuria with Lord Lytton's League of Nations commission...
...Shantung, and proceeded to return there last week "as the climate is good for my asthma." Chinese expected Feng's "asthma"-a standing joke-to last until he sees a fresh chance to rush forth on another profitable military escapade. During his previous retirement the League of Nations Lytton Commission investigating Japan's seizure of Manchuria tried to consult Feng on Taishan, were turned away by the excuse that...