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...represented in Oslo by 75-year-old Robert Underwood Johnson, onetime editor of the Century Magazine, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy (1920-21). He bore illuminated parchment scrolls of greeting from various literary societies and hobnobbed with 98 other delegates from 19 countries. All were bounteously entertained by King Haakon VII of Norway...
...years the ordinary newspaper is crumbled, cracked, useless with age, even if unthumbed. Rag paper issues will last indefinitely, longer than any paper substance except parchment. A year ago Adolph S. Ochs's New York Times, leader, in many aspects, of all the journals of the land, conceived the rag paper notion and prints a limited supply each day. (See p. 7.) The Patterson-McCormick Chicago Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," felt called upon to offer a similar service to millionaire subscribers and posterity...
Through the wide portal of a sumptuous residence in Tokyo a slender Pole strode jerkily. Ushered into the presence of his host, he shook respectfully a crinkly parchment hand. Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The clipped and pomaded poll of Prince Tokugawa, "the Japanese Otto Kahn," a lineal descendant of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") who ruled Japan from 1603 until the present Imperial Dynasty was restored...
...first book bred by the massive merger (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927) of Doubleday, Page & Co. and George H. Doran Co.; the first to bear their new stamp of Doubleday, Doran & Co. It was written by Booth Tarkington, the title Claire Ambler. It was bravely bound in special parchment paper; first sample of a luxurious edition published to signalize properly the inauguration of a vast new power in U. S. publishing...
Synagogs Sacked. Men students burst in the doors of six synagogs at Oradia Mare and Cluj. Young women students not only helped them plunder the sacred Arks in which the long parchment Scrolls of the Law were kept, but assisted when these scrolls were stripped from their valuable, gold-encrusted rollers and publicly "soiled"? before the eyes of lamenting Jews...