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...clerk was the late William Christian Paul, who until his death last January worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. by day, pored over books on rare oriental fabrics in his Bronx home by night. Out of his small salary, bit by bit, he spent between $30,000 and $40,000 for old Chinese court robes, Tibetan embroideries and similar textiles. This bequest to the Museum was his entire estate, was uncontested by his nephew, only heir. Last week Alan Priest, the Museum's Curator of Far Eastern art, said the fabrics were worth far more than Donor Paul...
Because the world is their statistical province, experts of the League of Nations at Geneva are always a bit behind. They announced cheerfully last week that they have now caught up to 1928 in their search to find out how much U. S. tourists spend abroad and how much immigrants in the U. S. send back to the "old countries...
With the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act safely on the statute books, its Senate coauthor, Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, last week departed from Washington for a rest and a bit of golf" at Provo, Utah, his home. Before going Senator Smoot arose in the Senate Chamber to announce...
...happiness of farm workers does not consist in handing them a bit of land if they are not fit and do not have the elements necessary to cultivate...
...Newport. Skipper Harold Stirling Vanderbilt won three more trial races with his America's cup yacht, Enterprise. Weetamoe beat her once but Enterprise made her default, protesting interference. Whirlwind went back to the shipyard to have her mast moved forward a bit, her underbody (hastily finished) scraped and repainted. Whirlwind was hopelessly beaten, Yankee still proved fast off the wind. So far Enterprise seems likeliest to meet Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V, though no trials have yet been sailed in a heavy wind. The formal elimination races come July 7 off Newport, the Cup races begin Sept...