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Harley Lyman Clarke, utility-cinema tycoon, and Edward Richmond Tinker, banker, last week indulged in polite remarks about each other. Mr. Clarke was retiring from the presidency to the chairmanship of Fox Film Corp. His post is being filled by Mr. Tinker. Said Mr. Clarke: "I have been hoping for some time that Mr. Tinker would undertake this responsibility, and I am delighted. . . ." Said Mr. Tinker: ". . . Mr. Clarke and I have been friends for many years ... I am looking forward to the renewal of pleasant relationships with old friends and associates...
Latest group of library-friends is the Yale Library Associates, organized last December under the direction of Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Keeper of Rare Books in Yale University's costly new Sterling Memorial Library. Last month the library got through the Associates' work a notable gift?a summary of Dr. Albert Einstein's relativity theory, written in his own hand, valued at $25,000 (TIME, March 16). And last week it received 160 original letters from Poet Matthew Arnold to Poet Arthur Hugh Clough, upon whose death Arnold wrote Thyrsis* With money given by members of Yale's class...
...yard free style--Won by W.S. delima '31; second, T.H. Jameson '33; third, Tinker (W). Time...
...yard relay race--Won by Harvard; R.D. Fallon '33, W.S. deLima '31, H.C. Hamman '33, B.S. Wood '33; second, Worcester: Holcomb, Perry, Osipowich, Tinker. Time--1 min., 39 3-5 sec. (Equals Harvard record...
...death started a dressmaker's establishment in Cannes to provide for her three little girls, moved up to Paris when Lily decided she wanted to study piano at the Conservatoire. The other was Lily Pons's husband, August Mesritz, a wealthy Dutch banker and newspaper manager who retired to tinker at painting at the Riviera. Husband Mesritz first suggested that Lily study for opera. She had had some experience as a comedy ingenue, sang an incidental song once and had a small success. She set to work, within a year made her debut in Mulhouse, Alsace. Three years later...