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...Books, acknowledged to be more serious now than at any time since the black year of 1917, went into this latest, exciting phase, the American Booksellers' Association gathered in convention in New York. At their closing banquet they were entertained by a brother act featuring Dr. Charles Austin Beard ( Whither Mankind) and one Westinghouse Televox. Mr. Televox, controlled by a pitchpipe between the lips of R. H. Maxwell, Westinghouse engineer, spoke in the voice of Dr. Beard. He began, "As Dr. Beard so kindly said, I am the personification of the machine age which he defends...
...Loeb partner as had his brother Felix in 1896. Since then he has been not only a great banker, but an illuminating banker. His essays on banking are published in Vol. II of his book. The Significance. "The object in writing this book was to show whence we came, whither we are drifting, and by what fairly simple means we can avoid dangerous rocks now threatening our course." The laity however will regret Mr. Warburg's decision to go the "extreme of foregoing to mention by name even onetime fellows-at-arms to whom I longed...
...will go." Such was the standing boast of Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, 17 years a seafarer, able navigator, last year co-hero with Pilot Roger Q. Williams on his trans-Atlantic flight to Rome (TIME, July 22). The place Capt. Yancey stood ready to fly to was one whither no man had ever flown from the U. S.?a 20 sq. mi. pinprick n the Atlantic, 580 mi. offshore?Bermuda. One little slip in navigating and a plane from shore would shoot by Bermuda out over the boundless wastes of the Atlantic...
...show to visiting notables. But Princeton sentiment also embraces the aged Francis Landey Patton, President from 1888 to 1902. Upon his resignation, he took up the Presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1913 he went into retirement in Bermuda where he was born 87 years ago and whither he returned still a British subject. Holidaying Princetonians go to see him, shake his thin hand. They must stand very close because Patriarch Patton is going blind...
Married. Margaret, 21, daughter of Senator & Mrs. James Couzens of Michigan; and William Jeffries Chewning, 25, Washington socialite bank clerk. Because she is a Catholic, he a Protestant, they had to get special dispensation from Archbishop Curley at Baltimore, whither they eloped...