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...week's most famed visitor was Adlai Stevenson, who turned up for a conference with the President and a stag luncheon with 16 other top Administration officials. In two hours at the White House, Stevenson gave the President a report on his five-month tour of the world, and urged a nonaggression pact with Russia. The President, said Stevenson, was "very much interested" in his proposal, and assured him that "the Administration is examining closely [the proposed pact] as well as all other ways and means of relieving tension in Western Europe...
Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery announced a major acquisition: a bronze Diana, accompanied by a little stag. The 36-inch-high figure, modeled by a Greek of the 2nd or 3rd century B.C., is extraordinarily well preserved. It has a windblown freshness and grace that no later sculptor could have improved on. Gallery Director Edgar Schenck would not say what his sculpture cost, but made clear that he thought it priceless: "We believe there is no other Greek bronze yet discovered which compares in size and quality to our Diana...
This was a stag affair, but on Dec.17, a Wednesday, more than 100 members of the class, plus their wives and sons over 16 spent a crowded 13 hours going to college again. Nineteen different courses, some of them as early as 9 o'clock, were open to them. The visitors then lunched in the houses as the guests of Provost Buck. In the afternoon they went on guided tours through Lamont and Houghton, built since 1928, visited the new--to them--Indoor Athletic Building to watch work out and a freshman swimming meet, then spent a pleasant evening...
...Montreal and a member of the Sulpician order. Archbishop Leger spent six years teaching in Japan, was later appointed rector of the Canadian College in Rome (1947-50). An outspoken, rigidly pious man, he has campaigned for strict enforcement of Canada's liquor laws, against bingo, lotteries, stag parties...
Pioneer Silversmith begins his career by peddling "stag" films, soon infringes camera patents to shoot his early two-reelers. On the West Coast, he thieves on a bigger scale, lifts a whole studio from a trusting partner. Silversmith's son, Ellis, starts out a yes-but critic of his father's tactics, ends up by becoming a me-too partner. Together they dream of a Silversmith dynasty. But the dream turns into a nightmare with the coming of sound; Silversmith Productions never gets through the sound barrier. A new breed of buccaneers squeeze the Silversmiths...