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CHANCES-A. Hamilton Gibbs-Little, Brown ($2.50). Tom and Jack Ingleside, English adolescents, fitted into French College de St. Malo "like two young zebras introduced into a herd of reindeer." When they learned to say "mer-r-r-de" properly they were grudgingly accepted as decent sorts by the school bullies Lapostolle, Boutet, Verner, Cochois. Close as two fingers were the brothers; through school in France and Germany; through Oxford; through their London apprenticeship (Tom-law; Jack-engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly...
...Societe des Bains de Mer de Monaco (Sea Baths Society of Monaco), better known as the Monte Carlo gambling casino syndicate, has its own currency- round and oval celluloid chips (jetons) of various colors and denominations which the Casino sells for cash, to be used at the gaming tables and afterward redeemed for cash. Although strictly forbidden as legal tender outside the Casino, almost anyone nearby who frequents the Casino will accept them as such...
...William Holland Wilmer. To Dr. Wilmer the University dedicated the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute and to Dr. Welch the William H. Welch Medical Library. At the same time, the University inaugurated a Department of the History of Medicine and installed Dr. Welch as its head. Dr. Wilmer. William Holland Wil mer, 66, tall, blondish son of an Episcopal Bishop, is incontestably the greatest eye surgeon the U. S. has ever had.* Every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland on has needed eyeglasses, although they seldom were pictured wearing them. Dr. Wilmer has taken care of them all. Last week President Hoover...
...Italian grammar by Longfellow, printed in 1832, is the first published work of that poet. The exhibition includes other of his early productions, among them "Outre-Mer" printed in 1835, "Hyperion" in 1839, "Evangeline" in 1847, and "Kavanagh...
...Baldwin is a veteran of the Argonne. His Army experiences followed nine months of naval mal de mer. His wife, Mrs. Marthe Guillon Verne Baldwin, is a niece of famed Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). Politically, Mr. Baldwin echoes Mrs. Pratt, of whom he is a close friend...