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Wealthy Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney decided to tear down the Harry Payne Whitney house-one of the last great mansions left on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue. Her husband willed it to her at his death in 1930 but she rarely lived there. A limestone and marble pile with ceilings imported from Italian palaces, a ballroom 63 ft. long and 45 ft. high, it was decorated by the late, famed Stanford White. All its furnishings and every fixture that can be detached will be aucioned off April 29 and 30. Among the furnishings: paintings by Gainsborough and Van Dyck...
...nation's fast swimmers, Yale is a favorite for first in every event, with the possible exceptions of the 50 and 100 yard free styles and the back-stroke. Even if the Elis fail to take their quota of first places, however, their squad has the depth to pile up enough seconds and thirds in order to take the team title...
...Brazil got a $100,000,000 U.S. Government credit (for rubber, iron ore, railroads, etc.) to pile on top of almost $70,000,000 still unused from her last credits. Meanwhile, the balance of trade (nearly $65,000,000 last year) is still running all Brazil...
Either the University expects Mr. Casner to be a one-man army on his own time, or else it isn't interested in running anything more than a clearing house where students who don't read the papers can see all the press releases in one neat pile...
Although it has been previously announced that Don McNichol, last year's pile-driving, full back, was definitely out for the coming season, he expressed doubt last night as to whether that would be the case. "I won't know definitely until June," he said. Barring call to the draft, the red-headed product of Finishing N. Y., will try to graduate in September. However, there are scholastic difficulties to be overcome...