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...abrasives, roared: "Halt! Halt!" The impulsive newcomer was Sculptor Giuseppe Donato, the Philadelphia Municipal Art Jury's most mercurial member, who well knows that sandpaper is not good for the texture of marble. Sculptor Donato forthwith ran to the office of Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, puffed out his complaint. No art expert, Mayor Wilson gave Sculptor Donato authority to complete the cleaning of the two-ton Washington statue...
...past 20 years Handy has devoted most of his time to his publishing business, though he has managed to turn out over 60 blues. His current complaint is that popular music has become too mechanical, that radio and cinema have proven big blights. As for "swing" music he says: ''It is the music I was playing 20 years ago, only with more brass and less rhythms...
...giving money to charity. In Brooklyn, N. Y. last week one Anna Seigel went to the police with a story of how she had paid $200 as a mitzvah for her paralyzed daughter and was now wondering if she had been swindled. Upon investigation of Mrs. Seigel's complaint the Brooklyn district attorney declared that the police had turned up "one of the most novel and extensive rackets for mulcting the poor and afflicted people which has ever come to my attention...
...social cross-section is to be concentrated upon, the Houses should be made as attractive as possible to the maximum number of groups. It has been the most constant complaint, coming strangely enough from both sides, that the men from Eton and Harrow by their yearly desertion deal the most telling blow to the whole House plan. In the majority of cases this exodus could be prevented by a more elastic system of admissions. Arrangements should be made, if necessary by shifting about the present occupants, so that each year a great number of neighboring vacancies would occur. Houses should...
...light was shed last night upon the Lampoon flag-hoisting case when a statement was issued by Dean Hanford. Dean Hanford said that so far no official complaint had been received from Washington as a result of the raising of the red flag upon the Supreme Court staff. The statement came as a result of an investigation into the Lampoon Supreme Court case and is: "Following the University's usual policy, no statement concerning disciplinary action on undergraduates will be made...