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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carnival, " A Night at Saint Moritz," for the benefit of the New York Music Week Association; at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan...
Engaged. William H. Vanderbilt of Newport, Rhode Island State Senator, nephew of Capitalist Cornelius Vanderbilt III; and Miss Anne Gordon Colby, Foxcroft graduate, daughter of Everett Colby, onetime New Jersey State Senator; at Llewellyn Park...
Last week the name of Preacher Fosdick's church ceased to be a misnomer. At a meeting of the congregation in the completed portion of the new $4,000,000 edifice which most-famed-member-of-the-congregation John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is building at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street (TIME, Dec. 31). it was announced that the Riverside Church was now its legal title. Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended...
...observation by the university's new young president Robert Maynard Hutchins. President Hutchins, like Dr. Falk. was born in Brooklyn, is just 30, was graduated from Yale...
...fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer's translation of the wandering of Odysseus is in prose, but faithful to the letter and spirit of Homer's rolling pentameters...