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Perhaps the smallest letter ever written was one called "The Miniature Letter" and was written by Carroll to Dynphna Ellis and signed "Sylvie". One of the first prints of this is among other letters of Carroll. The entire exhibit will be in the cases for two weeks, until the resuming of classes after the Spring recess...
...Corp. and the owner of 30 cinema theatres) last week bought Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel's new Roxy Theatre, largest cinema house in the world (6,200 seats) and eleven more "Roxy" theatres now abuilding, for $15,000,000. Twenty years ago William Fox began business with the smallest theatre in Manhattan (146 seats). One Herbert Lubin is "Roxy's" money backer...
...Texan arm around Mr. Bloom's neck. They grappled, heaved, fell across the committee table. One L. B. Schloss joined the fray, was knocked to the floor, kicked. The Rev. Harry L. Bowlby, secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance, was reported as having picked out the smallest man in the room (a stenographer), knocked off his glasses, punched him.* Somebody called the police, but they did not arrive until after Hattie Pitts of the McKendree Methodist Church lifted her hands and her voice in prayer, shrieked: "O Lord, O Jesus, have mercy on these men." The roughnecks...
...head the firm now constitute the smallest partnership of any important Wall Street House, and continue the tradition of a closed group. James Loeb, Solomon Loeb's son, joined the firm in 1888, withdrew in 1901, to give his time to classical literature. He has been having Latin and Greek works translated into English, and has been paying all publication losses. For this activity, Cambridge University gave him its degree as Doctor of Laws (TIME, March, 23, 1925). He has long lived in Munich, Germany...
Freshmen inevitably hear of "Copey" within their first week at Harvard, if not long before, but they may pass him many times in the street before knowing him by sight. There is nothing to notice about a little fellow of 66, as small, indeed, as the smallest freshmen, in traditional oldtime professorial garb--old brown overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia...