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...cornerstones that bear the name of James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, he is proudest of the one under the new post office in his native Bath. He laid that one himself, in 1931. The trowel, suitably engraved, hangs over his mantel. He will take it with him to Coral Gables, Fla., where he plans to pass the rest of his days...
...Princeton, where the School has settled to be in a college community near Manhattan, the number is up to 100. And next autumn there will be four new buildings so that the students will no longer have to hike three miles to classes. But John Williamson is proudest of his graduates' accomplishments. More than 400 have important church jobs. There is a Westminster Choir School in Japan, another in India. A Westminster graduate teaches music at the Silliman Institute in the Philippine Islands. Studying with Dr. Williamson now are natives of Korea, Brazil, a bushman from South Africa...
...Virginia State Choral Society. St. Louis concentrated on folk songs and sea chanteys. Rochester gave a hearing to contemporary native composers. Rich programs have been given at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and at Cornell University in Ithaca, N. Y. Last week the spring's proudest festivals were given in Bethlehem, Pa., and in Ann Arbor, Mich.- In Bethlehem the Moravian Trombone Choir climbed again to the belfry of Lehigh University's Packer Memorial Church, announced the beginning of two days of Bach. Philadelphia's Bruce Carey conducted, as he did last year after Death took...
...proudest of Persians last week was Hossein Khan Keyostevan, consul for his country at Karachi, India. From Teheran he had just received orders to go next month to Shanghai and open a Persian consulate, thus becoming the first man in 1,300 years to establish official diplomatic relations between Persia and China...
...known (others: herself, Painter Pablo Picasso). Ill health made William Zebina Ripley, 66, railroad expert, retire last March but economics in 1932 acquired brilliant Josef Alois Schumpeter, onetime (1919) Finance Minister of Austria. Since 1882 Frank William Taussig, 74, tariff authority, has been one of Harvard's proudest possessions...