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Died. William Gunn Shepherd, 55, famed newspaper correspondent, Collier's staff writer; of pneumonia; in Washington. He covered the Madero revolution and the downfall of Huerta in Mexico, the World War on a dozen fronts, the Russian Revolution and the Paris Peace Conference. . He spent two years probing a rumor that President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth had escaped to Texas and Oklahoma, finally reported the story a myth...
...desirous of European peace still have an opportunity to preserve it. An economic boycott of Germany to force its government to terms would so multiply its target as to make a shot impractical. If Great Britain and France will not consent to an arms parley at Stresa, they must shepherd Hitler back to the Geneva conference, and a boycott would provide the quickest and least disastrous instrument for this purpose. Hitler must have a voice in the settlement of the armament question; he cannot accept the decision which seems impending at Geneva, he is unable to meet his colleagues...
...announced at the same time that the University closed Shepherd and Dudley halls for three reasons. The first is that more graduate students are living in rooming-houses, and the second is that there are no more "overflow" Freshmen living outside the Yard this year. Finally, the increased percentage of students living in the Houses is the third reason. However, Claverly Hall is practically filled, and Apley Court is half full...
...heart attack; after long illness; in Chicago. Died. Clay Meredith Greene, 83, of injuries suffered when he fell and broke his hip last May; in San Francisco, Calif. A famed playwright and librettist at the turn of the Century, he was eleven times (1891-98, 1902-05) Shepherd of New York's Lambs Club, was the oldest member of San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club. His passion play Nazareth was the first produced in the U. S. (1901), is revived every third year at Santa Clara, Calif. Died. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 91, famed oldtime...
...Roman bustling, with crowds surging, clerical robes flapping in the breeze, prelates gesticulating, nodding, signaling. In the signing of the Lateran Treaty, Cardinal Gasparri has pen in hand, treaty before him. With a stout finger he points-here; a prelate points-there; he points back - here; and signs. The Shepherd of the Seven Hills is accompanied throughout with choir-singing and the unctuous voice of Radio Narrator Basil Ruysdael...