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Every year universities and colleges throughout the U. S. and Canada vie with each other in paying honor to those whom they hold to be great or near-great. Last week the 1932 kudos season got under way with Wooster College (Ohio) giving an L.H.D. to First Lady Lou Henry Hoover. The following other colleges conferred upon the following other people the following degrees...
Here for the first time, the brothers in the same picture vie with each other in claiming the attention of the audience. At one moment Lionel may be seen nodding in a satisfied manner, laughing scornfully, and ordering like a master, while in the next is John, who speaks gently, jokes lightly, and compares himself with champagne, "the kind you can drink at any time, even before breakfast...
Maamme! Maamme! Our Fatherland! Oh, sacred word sound high! As on our fathers' soil we stand, No hill nor vale, nor sunny strand, Nor fertile plain 'neath southern sky Can with our bleak North vie...
BEHIND MOROCCAN WALLS-Henriette Celarie; translated & adapted by Constance Lily Morris-Macmillan ($5). Mme Celarie, wife of a French officer in Morocco, whiled away long garrison days by finding out what she could about Moroccan women. From the two books which she wrote (Amours Morocaines, La Vie Mysterieuse des Harems) Translator Constance Lily Morris, herself a sojourner in Morocco, has culled this collection of true stories and sketches. Macmillan has printed it in a big folio; Artist Boris Artzybasheff has illustrated it in sumptuous black & white...
...Government's methods of financing itself. The Federal Treasury is the country's most prodigal borrower. It operates in the red as a matter of principle. Its preoccupation is keeping one short jump ahead of its creditors. Yet its credit is the highest in the world; financiers vie to lend it money; its profits (surplus) cause the nation to rejoice...