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From Trinity College, Oxford, comes John Bird, whose father was head of the Natal Civil Service. He prepared for college at Clongones Wood in Ireland, and will take courses in philosophy as well as continuing his interest in literature, playwriting, and newspaper work. At Oxford he was a member of numerous literary societies and was a track "Blue", winning the hundred-yard race against Cambridge. He was reading "Greats" at the university, which corresponds in general with taking honors at American universities...
...assemblage included Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont, Mrs. J. E. Smith Hadden, Mrs. Sidney Fish, Mrs. Hinman Bird, Miss Kitty P. Smith, General John J. Pershing. The gay throng surged about the place...
Just as the active bird catches the early worm, so the Government has apparently caught the Baltic-American, Ward, Fabre and Greek steamship lines. Each of these is owner of a ship which came into the U. S. territorial waters from six minutes to 15 seconds before Sept. 1. As a result the immigrants aboard the four ships arrived after the August quotas were filled and too "early" for September quotas (TIME, Sept...
...JOURNEY?W. B. Max-well?Doubleday Page ($2.00). The people at the golf club wondered what those two old bores, Wilfred Heber and Carrington Bird ever saw in each other. They were always quarreling ?and always inseparable. Then the page turns back and we see them from boyhood on?friends in youth?then separated?then casually coming together again?the interwoven skeins of the two lives from youth to age. Oddities of temperament, accidents, wives interrupted the friendship?no theatrical Damon-and-Pythias sacrifices fell to the lot of either, exactly? but the friendship endured. Why, precisely ? Neither could...
Meanwhile the honors fell thick and fast. The appointees included Mrs. H. H. Foster for Arkansas, Mrs. Porter Von Cannon for Idaho, Mrs. Emily F. Genssler for Louisiana, Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird for Massachusetts, Mrs. Manley Fosseen for Minnesota, Miss Belle B. Boyd for Nevada, Mrs. Mina Otera-Warren for New Mexico, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin for New York, Mrs. John Gordon Battelle for Ohio, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton for Pennsylvania, Mrs. M. M. Caldwell for Virginia...