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Three weeks ago, it became known last week, the Pope gave audience to Aurelio Mistruzzi, Papal engraver and sculptor who fashioned the Golden Rose to be given this week to Italy's Queen Elena (TIME, March 15). According to Signer Mistruzzi, the hale Holy Father pointed to papers on his desk and said: "We have written a long letter which is most important and we are writing another which is equally important. When they are published the world will know a sick man could not have written them. When we write letters like this [pointing] we must feel well...
Sculptor Rush, son of a ship carpenter, started his career as a carver of ship figureheads and as such was neither unknown nor unrewarded. Besides being a ship carpenter his father was also first cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with...
Upon the unhappy Earl of Plymouth jumped both Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German Charge d'Affaires, and Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, a fierce and scathing fighter in debate. With concentrated sarcasm Signer Grandi asked Comrade Cahan why, if Russia was so strong for non-intervention in Spain, she did not protest the British planes sold to Madrid, the British ships running guns to Spanish Reds, and the British fighting with the Red Militia, as well as the open encouragement to Spanish radicals given by such British members of Parliament as Laborite William Dobbie. This belaboring of Comrade Cahan...
...undergraduates are warned that no man is allowed to solicit unless he displays the official University badge granted by the Business Office. All solicitors are members of the University. A contract from an unofficial solicitor gives the signer absolutely no certainty of fair treatment...
...will find delightful. There are accounts of the political manipulations (some successful, some not so successful) which figured in Harvard's early struggles to survive. (We might mention among the less successful deals that which made John Hancock Treasurer of Harvard College, which responsible post the great signer filled to perfection except that he completely failed to render any account of his transactions.) There are great mines of valuable information on the development and perpetuation of the liberal tradition at Harvard, opposed at the beginning by Increase Mather and at the three-hundredth mark by that slightly more sooty historical...