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...diminutive figure in a gray overcoat and felt hat, and carrying a black walking stick, Ambassador Saito was at Harvard for approximately the space of an hour. After conferring with President Conant, and before returning to Boston for a 1 o'clock luncheon engagement, he made a brief inspection of the Memorial Church and the Fogg Art Museum, where he examined the Oriental exhibits. Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and William Cameron Forbes '92, associate in the University Museum, and former ambassador to Japan, accompanied the Ambassador about the Yard...
...tutor, a man named Parrott, was there too. The boy learned that his father had had a serious automobile accident, that he must go up to London at once. He packed the one brown suitcase that is supposed to be sufficient for Sandroyd boys, put on his belted overcoat and his school cap, got into the car. At the Ritz "Granny," Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, was waiting for him. Looking even more dramatic than usual, she wept a great deal, but would say nothing beyond the fact that there had been ''an accident, my God, a terrible...
...Monte Carlo Ballet Russe know Author Haskell as a bubbling, bald little man who trails them from town to town, settles many a backstage dispute, writes occasional reviews for British papers (New Statesman, New English Weekly, Manchester Guardian) and turns up persistently at rehearsals and performances in an overcoat several inches too long. Author Haskell identifies himself as a life-long balletomaniac who studied dancing to understand its difficulties. He quarreled with Diaghilev over his last ballets and Diaghilev never forgave him. He describes Diaghilev's weaknesses: his sexual abnormalities, his greed for sweets, his crazy superstitions, his countless...
Twelve years ago Hood was a clientless architect in Manhattan, married and $10,000 in debt. News came that a design he had drawn for the $7,000,000 Chicago Tribune Tower had won its $50,000 competition prize. He had to borrow to buy an overcoat to travel to Chicago and collect his money. Because he had submitted his design from the office of John Mead Howells he had to turn $40,000 of his prize over to that New York architect. Soon he had all the commissions he wanted. A strident exponent of functionalism, a reckless experimenter...
...leaves her beret behindc Her lawyer-husband (Ricardo Cortez) goes to the flat, finds there the artist's discarded mistress (Dorothy Burgess), tries unsuccessfully to prevent her from shooting herself, departs without noticing that he has left his glove on the floor. The hat, the glove and the overcoat on which his mistress expires are introduced as evidence when the artist (John Beal) is tried for her murder. His attorney is the husband of the lady who owns the beret. He has undertaken the case at the request of his wife who has promised to discontinue her affair with...