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...second semester is held on board the 20,000 ton steamship "Resolute", which the students re-join at Naples. Classes meet daily at sea in special rooms and on deck. During this semester students visit Greece, Palestine, Egypt, French Somaliland in East Africa, India, Ceylon, Prince of Wales Island, Malaya, Siam, the Straits Settlements, Java, Bali, Sulu, the Philippines, Formosa, China, Korea, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, California, Panama, and Cuba...
Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski is probably the only musician who could command such consideration from New York City authorities and a great steamship line. But Paderewski has been a figure greatly honored this year. He is 70 and early last season he underwent an appendectomy which seriously threatened to end his career (TIME, Oct. 7, 1929). This year he returned to the U. S. (traveling for the first time without Madame Paderewska who is incurably ill in Switzerland), made a nation-wide concert tour, played 80 concerts to jam-packed houses of people who suspected they were hearing...
...Protagonists- In the room were: Dr. Coffey, 63, square-faced, burly, choleric.* He is chief surgeon of Southern Pacific Co. and Dollar Steamship Lines. For the railroad he has 600 doctors working under him. They care for 70,000 railroad men and their families. On the principle that ''the health of the community is the wealth of the railroad," Dr. Coffey's staff help public health officials throughout the railroad's territory. Dr. Coffey is an important California executive and a political power in the State. Professionally he is a surgeon. Characteristically he is an empiricist...
...Grace Isabell Hammond Conners, 31, the slim, comely, brown-eyed, determined widow of the late William James ("Fingy") Conners, Buffalo steamship, newspaper and political tycoon. The Connerses lived so gaily at "The Monastery," their estate at Huntington, Long Island, that since he died (1929) she has refused to return there. (One of the rooms is paved with old tombstones.) She also gave up the motorboat racing at which she was enthusiastically expert. Last summer while she was traveling in California and thinking of founding a children's home somewhere with her inherited wealth (she is a devout Roman Catholic...
Japan's grappler was President Kenkichi Kagami of Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Japanese Mail Steamship Co., largest, most luxurious operated by Asiatics. Bland, bespectacled, slightly plump, Mr. Kagami, an incessant smoker of U. S. cigarettes got his technical training in the Occident, sailed home to become an executive genius of Japan's No. 2 house of merchant princes, the Mitsubishi, which controls the N. Y. K. (No. 1 is the House of Mitsui...