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...model housing development which he planned for John D. Rockefeller Jr. Dr. Ely this spring in Manhattan held seminars in land economics, found enough interest in them to justify the school. For backing he went to Owen D. Young, John W. Davis. Frank O. Lowden. Philip A. Benson. Last week he had enough support to announce that the school would open next October. Dr. Ely plans to limit his enrolment to 300, mostly adult postgraduates. There were 600 applicants last week. The three year course with himself and other land experts in charge will cover land utilization, housing, planning, zoning...
PULL DEVIL, PULL BAKER-Stella Benson & Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine, K. M.-Harper...
...game of "Consequences." Authoress Stella Benson met Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine in the charity ward of a Hongkong hospital. He was an inmate, she a visitor. Aged (77). penniless, shaky but brazen, the old scamp regaled her with such engagingly improbable tales, carried himself with such an unabashed air of grandeur that she was fascinated. A White Russian refugee, by his own account descended from an ancient French family, Count Nicolas spoke and wrote English of a sort; Authoress Benson decided to edit his rodomontadinous reminiscences. Pull Devil, Pull Raker is an antiphonal collaboration: the Count supplies...
...made and lost fortunes at the gaming table, hobnobbed with royalty, became kingpin of a polyglot community in Siberia, escaped to the U. S. ("the Contry of the Gold Devil"), where he pyramided another flimsy fortune, gradually subsided into a broken-down old panhandler in the Orient. When Authoress Benson last heard of him he was in Macao, "where, for the moment, he stands balanced, as though on a steppingstone, about to step into a new life of grand sansation...
...this tug-of-war between Baker Nicolas and Devil Benson, Authoress Benson calls it a draw. Many a reader will agree with her, will sympathize with her bewilderment when she confesses: "I'm uncertain . . whether the Count de Savine is editing me or I him. I am cleverer than he is-I think-but I am not sure whether I see more or understand more. Simply, I say more and I understand that I don't understand...