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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sixteenth Century display there is also an English publication a work of sir Thomas Moore in 1557. The Satyrs of Persius, put out of France two years earlier, is not in such good condition although the copicus interlineations in its pages make it interesting. The prize of the century is the Polyglot Bible, printed in Aniweir in 1572. It is a massive dome with rare full-page cuts of miracles and clerical symbols...
...gentleman referred to the New York Sun, which was obtaining a telephonic interview, and to George Romney, the 18th Century English cabinet-maker's son who achieved the niceties of Cavendish Square and rivaled Sir Joshua Reynolds as London's favorite painter. Naturally, the Sun had heard of Artist Romney, and quite as naturally of hell's-bellsing Lawrence P. Fisher. The latter is president of Cadillac Motor Co. and next-to-youngest of the six Fisher Brothers who rose from their father's Ohio blacksmithy to dominance in General Motors Corp...
...Fisher back his money. But despite this material satisfaction, the world of Art remained troublous for Mr. Fisher. What about the rest of the score of paintings which he had employed Galleryman Young to buy for him? How could one ever be sure of the genuine? Even expert Sir Joseph Duveen, in a similar case, had proved nothing (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Row upon row of glistening Cadillacs, or Mr. Fisher's new and magnificent Fokker (see p.14), are logical, congenial objects of thought. But two paintings, placed side by side for comparison, may jeopardize the reason...
Trans-Hemisphere Transport. For two years European nations have been sending flyers to scout airways across Africa, across Asia. Last week England utilized its amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...
Last week London's Lord Mayor Sir Kynaston Studd dined exceedingly well. Among his guests were Viscount Byng of Vimy and Thorpe-le-Soken, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, Viscount Lascelles, Lord Chancellor Baron Hailsham. Also present was Dr. Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton, author of many a learned treatise and many a tingling ghost story. All the guests were Eton graduates. Provost James offered the famed toast, Floreat Etonia. Then, pridefully eyeing the company, he added: "Gentlemen, the purpose of Eton is to produce old Etonians...