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Shanghai, Mar. 3--Ts Vung Soong, Harvard class of 1915, who was yesterday commissioned chief of the Chinese air force, replacing his sister, Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, told reporters today that he would try to effect a reorganization of his country's aerial defense...
...French father, an English mother. His parents tried to make him a diplomat but Jean, already a worshiper of Tintoretto, Mantegna and El Greco, stood them off, earned a living doing posters and sketches of furniture. He first won general notice in 1927 with Nu an trois-mâts (nude and three-masted ship). Of another picture, Léda, a critic said that it delivered the kick in the stomach characteristic of genius. De Botton's portrait of Author Jules Remains (Men of Good Will), his onetime philosophy teacher, was bought by the French Government...
...United Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, sitting in Manhattan, how to preach successful sermons. First he counseled them to "get a good sleep Saturday night," warned them that "a torpid liver produces a dull sermon." To this admonition spry, old Dr. Meyer added four "don'ts" for lively preachers...
...brisk Premier Flandin popped in as the new Governor of the Bank of France last week bland M. Jean Tannery. Since 1925 and 1926 respectively, M. Jean Tannery has been dextrously managing those curious magicians' hats of French State finance, La Caisse des Dépôts and La Caisse Autonome d'Amortissement...
...days later the Government proudly opened the first railway ever to pierce remote Shensi Province and connect with the 20th Century world legendary Sian, capital of China during the Ts'in, Han and T'ang dynasties (246 B.C.-907 A.D.). As opened last week the railway is the newest link in a line that strikes 650 miles into Central China, connects Sian with Shanghai, Nanking and Peiping. Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall. All last week excited passengers, most of whom had galloped in on horseback...