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...first collection, lent by A. A. Hutchinson, of New York City, is of considerable value from an artistic viewpoint, since it includes work from the hands of the greatest masters of the period. An ink-well by Paul de la Mererie, executed in 1731, is considered the main display in the case. Mererie was forced to leave France after the proclamation of Louis XIV that all silver plates should be melted for the state treasury, and with a considerable number of his fellow-craftsmen, came to England, where he was soon after named Royal Goldsmith. A large "lion" tankard, bearing...
...death last January, one Manhattan certainty. It is always a difficult thing to rate that intangible which is medical standing. Yet by general consent Dr. Thomson, surgeon and director of Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital was Manhattan's No. 1 eye man. No. 2, according to the viewpoint and certainly among the first half dozen, was Dr. John Martin Wheeler, 52, Columbia professor of ophthalmology, chief of Medical Center's eye department. He was named the eye institute's director. Dr. Wrheeler is a very serious gentleman. He is not garrulous; and when he talks...
...which a man must have to administer a large prison efficiently, economically and with the best results both to the prisoner and the society which imprisons him," said Commissioner Patterson. "In addition to natural qualifications of tact, poise, firmness, tolerance and the ability to understand the other man's viewpoint, wardens must know something of finance, buying, mass feeding, discipline, agriculture, education, recreation, medicine, psychiatry and many other things in order to administer a prison efficiently and along modern lines...
From the Moscow viewpoint Comrade Litvinov has always been moderate-a daring moderate in a land of humdrum radicals. Last week he dared at Geneva, or almost dared, to cast doubt on the popular Russian thesis and belief that a Soviet-Capitalist World War is inevitable, coming soon. Prowling on thin ice, risking his popularity at home, Russia's moderate bear growled softly...
Nevertheless, the National Council of Christian Associations? child of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.?does represent the student groups of some 1,000 U. S. colleges. The Council meets annually. Unhampered by the viewpoint of its parents, it has been consistently, since the World War, veering leftwards. In Kalamazoo, Mich, in 1928, chafing (in its own words) "under its own unintelligent inconsistency of failing to square its practice with its radical profession/' it appointed the Economics Commission which reported last week...