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George Edgar Vincent (president of the Rockefeller Foundation) was the chief speaker at the fifth birthday dinner of the American Laboratory Theatre in Manhattan. Housed a year ago in a beer garden, the A. L. T. now uses a remodelled brewery, where the dinner was served last week and a $300,000 endowment sought...
...Vincent Vigoroux, 15, youngest editor and publisher in the U. S., whose paper is The Little Acorn of New Rochelle, N. Y., and 1,150 editors of high school papers throughout the land, attended the annual convention of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in Manhattan last week, saw how linotype machines were made, visited plants of New York City newspapers, heard President Karl August Bickel of the United Press say: "The day of the hardboiled, cynical reporter with a bottle of whiskey in one pocket, and an American Mercury in the other, has passed. Ideals are higher now. . . . This condition...
...United States Lawn Tennis Association, for long the last stronghold of amateurism in its original unadulterated form, has finally let down the bars prohibiting tournaments open to both professionals and amateurs. No doubt the first effect will be to settle questions which tennis devotees have argued since Vincent Richards and Mile. Lenglen succumbed to the wiles of Mr. C. C. Pyle. Now the Yonkers star can match his skill with those virtuous members of the First Ten who do not accept rewards for playing, and it will be seen whether playing tennis for money has affected his ability. If Suzanne...
...biggest yacht in point of view of tonnage is Vincent Aster's building in Germany. A Diesel engine oil burner. Over 2,000 tons...
...What Vincent Astor's new boat will cost is variously estimated, up to $2,000,000. She has nine staterooms, eight bathrooms. Her cruising radius is 12,000. Her speed 14½ miles per hour. She requires a crew of 38. Bare running expenses for such a boat are estimated at well over $100.000 a year. Entertainment expenses can easily run the year's budget...