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...week of the Borah of France, Senator Victor Berard, 67, Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee. He, the scholarly assistant director of the Ecole dcs Hantes Etudes, resembled Senator Borah in exceedingly few respects. After 44 years of preparation, Senator Berard published recently his great tome Did Homer Live? Weighing the evidence pro & con with vast erudition, he cautiously concluded that Homer in all probability did live...
Died. Rev. Dr. James Cameron Mackenzie, 78, organizer and headmaster (1882-99) of Lawrenceville School at Lawrenceville, N. J., which he modeled on the house plan of Phillips Exeter Academy and the British public schools, reorganizer of the Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit, Md. and its headmaster for two years; of heart disease; in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y. Founder and headmaster of his own Mackenzie School at Dobbs Ferry (later at Monroe. N. Y.) from 1901 until he retired in 1926, he declined invitations to be headmaster of Phillips Exeter, president of Lafayette College, superintendent of Philadelphia...
...Marylanders wondered where the money for the France campaign would come from. In 1903 the doctor married the wealthy widow of Jacob Tome, founder of Tome Institute (boys' school) at Port Deposit. Three months after her death in 1927, Dr. France married in Paris a Russian girl by the name of Tatiana Vladimirovna Dechtereva. He was the first U. S. Senator to get into Russia after the revolution, has always advocated cordial relations with the Soviets...
After a little while at Tome School and at Annapolis where he stroked his class crew, George Bancroft became an actor. Like other actors from the East, he went into pictures to play western villains. In Driven he was billed as The Smiling Villain. Smiling villainy became his specialty. When Underworld set box-office records and a fashion for crook stories, he was made a star. Looking younger than his age (43) he earns about $5,000 per week, takes a swim every day, has a mild aptitude for humorous anecdotes which he acts out gravely as he goes along...
...Irwin Plan in one tome of 256 pages, hastily extemporized by Viceroy Baron Irwin in four months, released last week...