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Twenty-five years of staid, depression spawned life ended for the Class of 1929 yesterday as 400 reunion families poured into Cambridge and poured out good spirits...
...Federal Housing Administration wide open. It was common knowledge throughout the agency that something was up; T-men and FBI agents had made repeated visits, checked books, collected data. Finally, on Monday, April 12, the government acted: Guy T. Hollyday, chief of the FHA, was dismissed. The normally staid New York Times reached a pitch of near hysteria in reporting, "FHA Chief Out--Frauds Charged--U.S. Opens Study--Files to be Siezed." In an orgy of political moralizing, the press called up spectres of Minks. Deep-freezers and Teapot Dome...
...conservative, staid Cincinnati Times-Star (circ. 154,579) has always been a family affair. Directed by aging (76) Publisher Hulbert Taft, the paper is controlled by the Taft family; a 5% block of stock is held by the estate of Publisher Taft's cousin, the late Senator Robert A. Taft, and Bob Taft's son Lloyd is a vice president of the paper today. Last week Publisher Taft made sure that the paper will remain under Taft family control. He stepped down as publisher and into his chair went his cousin, David Sinton Ingalls, 55, Bob Taft...
...critics found nothing static in Dumont's work. The Daily Telegraph hailed him as "an ill-starred artist of genius." The Daily Mail reported that Dumont's pictures had burst "on artistic London with the blazing suddenness of a spectacular fireworks display," and even the staid Times noted: "He was certainly a strong painter . . . Perhaps the real reason [why he was forgotten] was that in an age of formidable individualism, he never developed a highly personal and clearly distinguishable style...
...study has also led to a small armory of academic honors. She is a member of both the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Society of America. These honors in someone else might betoken a staid and settled dignity, but in Miss Cam they are landmarks in a life that has kept forever on the move. At nearly seventy, she and her sister jostled across the United States sitting up in a train, to take a bus trip up and down the West Coast--a trip that...