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...exhibition of the works of classic and modern authors, manuscripts, and medieval illuminated music of extreme value is being held for a short while at the Dunster House Book Shop, at Boylston and South Streets prior to the removal of the collection to the house of a client on the North Shore. The shop has nearly finished the task of bringing together the required volumes, mostly complete sets of famous authors in beautiful hand-made bindings and with hand painted decorations. Several Harvard undergraduates have helped in the book-seeking and cataloguing...
What happened later to change Herr Jaffe's mind is not recorded. But in Berlin last week Reporter Knickerbocker won a court injunction, forerunner of a libel suit, against a book just published: Murderers, Counterfeiters & Provocateurs, by Vladimir Orloff. In a preface to his client's volume, Herr Jaffe stated that M. Orloff had been forced into his crime by an agent provocateur in the person of Reporter Knickerbocker...
...recently to the militant United Syndicate of French Wine Growers. They have read of the strides made by California juicemen in the West (TIME, Oct. 20, Nov. 24). They have read, too. the weekly advertisements of New York's Vineyardists Inc. offering to come with juice into the client's home and there make guaranteed, "strictly legal" champagne, or any of several other wines. Acting on what they read, the French winemen strongly petitioned Prime Minister Andre Tardieu last week, asked him to ask the Hoover Administration through diplomatic channels whether it is legal, for sure, to make...
...lofty New York Times, not a client of United Press, was apparently guilty of caginess and poor sportsmanship. Two days late it printed a story from its Tokyo correspondent stating that the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun (U. P. client) was carrying an interview with Stalin. It then repeated the gist of the interview which was, of course, United Pressman Lyons'. A few days later Times Correspondent Duranty got his interview with Stalin. Certainly by that time the Times was well aware of the U. P. "heat." Yet the Duranty story referred only to "Japanese correspondents" as recent interviewers...
...collection. Though the expatriate Whistler never wholly succeeded in acclimatizing himself in England, though he always regarded the British as Philistines, called them "the Islanders," Laver gives an instance of how super-English Whistler became on the question of money. He once presented a bill for 2.000 guineas. His client thought the price excessive; the bill was finally settled for £1,000. But to Whistler "the difference between a pound and a guinea was not the difference between twenty shillings and twenty-one, but the difference between being treated as a tradesman and treated as a professional...