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...supposedly bent on securing a sound education and understanding of the world. If the Harvard Inquiry receives the support which its preliminary outline appears to deserve, and if it can maintain its program at the high standard which its founders desire, it should become a valuable organization for alert undergraduates...
Chicagoans who read society news are now accustomed to reading daily chit-chat which, besides routine news of socialite comings & goings, serves up harmless intimacies. First to adopt the idea was the Daily News when alert Col. William Franklin ("Frank") Knox took charge last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). Soon the Tribune found it necessary to brighten up its social page. Last week, accompanied by fanfare which included a full-page advertisement and a half-page announcement in the society columns, Hearst's evening American appeared with the chattiest column of them all. Excerpts...
...year-old President, who lost four of his five sons in the War, left his Elysee Palace to sponsor a sale of books by French War Veterans. In the limousine beside ancient M. Doumer rode alert, bristle-bearded Novelist Claude Farrère, President de la Société des Ecrivains Combattants who were staging their "War Veterans' Book Afternoon" in the nearby building of the Rothschild Foundation. Book sales were proceeding briskly and Novelist Farrère's wife Henriette had just succeeded in selling a third book by her husband to the brawny Russian...
...Henry A Bosel. 3) In Washington, D. C., Congressman Fiorello ( "Little Flower") Henry La Guardia continued a Congressional attack upon the bulls & bears of Wall Street (see p 45) 4) The continued Seabury investigation of Tammany corruption filled the Press with references to cartoons of the Tammany Tiger." An alert deskman for the New York World-Telegram put 1 2 3 & 4 together and produced the following dispatch, purporting to come from Riga notorious (like Winsted, Conn, and Evanston, Ill.) as a source of outlandish stories...
When Eva Gauthier announces a song-recital she does not need to label her songs with the conventional "first time anywhere" in order to attract the musically alert. Fifteen years ago Eva Gauthier established a reputation as a sensitive purveyor of interesting, untried songs. At her debut in 1917 she sang the first Stravinsky songs ever sung in the U. S. In 1924 when skirts were at knee-length, she caused more talk by appearing in a subdued, trailing gown and singing the songs of an upstart named George Gershwin. More pigeon-plump now than when John Singer Sargent sketched...