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...pocket the whole $150,000 they had advanced. Did they really want it, with all that such a transaction would imply? They did. He wrote a check, which they promptly deposited. When next I. H. C., Ltd. saw this bit of paper it bore the rubber stamp, "Account closed." On Feb. 18 Dr. Owen was deep in conversation at the Savoy Hotel with Alexander Roland Smith, general manager of Ford Motor Co., Ltd. As I. H. C. were now out of the picture, Ford, Ltd. were willing to be nominated, although General Manager Smith expressed surprise, pleased surprise, that...
WHEN THE WICKED MAN . . .-Ford Madox Ford-Liveright ($2.50). When a gossiper is going well he is not necessarily wicked, is often entertaining, sometimes even slightly edifying. Ford Madox Ford's books are gossipy, mostly entertaining but occasionally like the vaporings of the club bore. He is a great one . . . for three dots. Notterdam and Kratch had been through thick & thin, up a deal and down hell together. They were now twin tycoons lording it in Manhattan. Kratch had many an iron in the fire; Notterdam's only one was the rod with which he ruled the great...
...Segura pastoral letter set off a hot rocket in Madrid. Ever since the departure of King Alfonso, Madrid has been quiet?a little too quiet to suit observers who recalled the doldrums that preceded the French and Russian revolutions. Last week shouting mobs bore down on the Jesuit Industrial School, burned it to the ground, swept on to a Carmelite Convent, newly erected with funds collected in South America, and burned that too. In short order four more schools and convents were burned. Nuns and priests fled through back doors. Martial law was declared...
...Michelson moved from their Chicago cottage to a Pasadena bungalow, where they were last week. A few miles to the south, near Santa Ana, was a mile long metal tube with a perfectly straight bore. Dr. Michelson had fixed mirrors at each end. Between the mirrors he could jiggle a beam of light. Because air modifies the speed of light and Precisionist Michelson disliked taking airy variables into his calculations, he arranged devices to create a vacuum in his tube...
...Year ago one Mark Symons painted what the penny press described as the Picture of the Year. Not particularly well painted, harsh in color, it was a crucifixion with a Flanders battlefield as a background. There were modern British soldiers, gas masks, hand grenades and other impedimenta and it bore the imposing title "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?'' It brought him much publicity and many commissions. Feeling that there was a demand for this sort of thing, Artist Symons submitted another this year. It was called "My Lord I Meet in Every London Lane and Street...