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TIME's Sports reporter, who attended the U. S. Singles Championships, willingly returns to Forest Hills its trees, but still maintains that Secretary Hulbert's home town is no more distinguished than other moderately well-to-do Metropolitan suburbs...
...every freshman who entered Minnesota. Last week in a learned treatise Scholarship and Democracy* he reported that more than one half (52%) of 1,438 who matriculated in 1931 never became successful students. Of the children of the poor, 15% won honor standing, 58% did satisfactory work; of the well-to-do, only 6.5% achieved honors, 42% passed. But only one of 1,600 laborers in the State sends a child to the university, whereas one of 21 financiers is represented...
Liberal's Career. Many onetime admirers of Walter Lippmann will seriously question whether this conclusion is a fitting crown to a career which to them long seemed bound in a different direction. Born in Manhattan, the only child of well-to-do Jewish parents, young Walter was privately schooled, taken regularly to Europe, sent to Harvard. There in a class (1910) that included John Reed, Heywood Broun, Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Lippmann worked so hard and well that he finished his course in three years, spent his fourth year as assistant to Philosopher George Santayana. William James thought...
...midst of this hue & cry, an East-chesterite who had seen the dogs at play suddenly remembered the lady of the limousine. A license number was recalled, telephones tinkled and soon the police dog's owner had signed a complaint against Mrs. Julia Tuttle, a 65-year-old, well-to-do Larchmont widow. Late that night a detective pounded on Mrs. Tuttle's door. She was arrested on charges of dog-poisoning (for which one may be jailed a year in New York State) and taken before a Justice of the Peace, who set $500 bail after...
...most Americans the Coronation signifies a grand, un-British display of costly robes, real jewelry, and antique carriages. The masses know that well-to-do tourists are pouring into London by the carloard with baggage and accents revealing origins all the way from Taunton to Tokyo. They know that miles of wooden stands with rubberized bunting have been built, that one rehearsal with brass bands and everything took place before 200,000 at dawn...