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Died.?Mrs. Rupert Hughes, 39, second wife of the novelist-playwright, in whose plays she sometimes appeared, at Haiphong, China, suicide, probably the result of a nervous collapse following her experiences in the Japanese earthquake...
...several weeks no receiving station in North America was able to pick up messages from Donald Mix, radio operator of the Bowdoin, Dr. Donald B. MacMillan's boat now in the Arctic (TIME, Sept. 10). Fin- ally an amateur operator at Prince Rupert, B. C., 2,200 miles from Greenland, and later the station of the Calgary (Alberta) Herald, caught faint and fragmentary messages in Morse, reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group...
...present the executive committee of the Association are the undergraduate track managers at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and M. I. T. The members of the advisory committee are Gustavus T. Kirby of Columbia, A. C. Gilbert of Yale, Rupert D. Thomas Jr. of Princeton, L. W. George of the University of California, and A. Joslin H. McGrath of Cornell...
WITHIN THESE WALLS?Rupert Hughes?Harper ($2.00) Another stab at the Great American Novel. Another history of the adventures and misadventures of an American family from 1832, when New York was in the grip of the black cholera, to times fairly contemporaneous. But the RoBards had even more than the usual fictional American family's share of trouble. Jealousy, murder, seductions, secret marriages?they took a fling at them all, but always managed to keep up appearances pretty well, on the whole. There is much interesting information on the growth and development of New York City and its water-system?...
...will be a privilege to show some of these attractive books: "The Prisoner of Chillon", printed in illumined script on hand made paper and bound in full French levant with gold tooling. The Ricardi Press "Rupert Brooke", bound in 3-4 French levant and printed on hand made paper; Shelley's "Lyrical Poems", beautifully printed and sumptuously bound; these and many others will delight the eye of the book lover and connoisseur...