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...TIME, Dec. 24). His murderer still remains unapprehended. Most New Yorkers have heard that the "inside story" of this crime involves so high a Tammany official that the Walker administration had to switch Police Commissioners, as a sop, to divert popular attention from the unpleasant subject by a great display of traffic-controlling in the midtown districts. But nobody cares deeply. The subways are still hideously crowded, but even Wall Street millionaires still ride on them cheerfully. Additional busses have never materialized because, with the Mayor's consent, a franchise was awarded to a worthless company. These sins...
Also beginning Monday, May 20, the students in the School of Architecture will hold an exhibition in Robinson Hall, showing their work in freehand, life drawing, water colour, etc. On the basis of this display will be awarded the Eugene Dodd Medal which is given annually to the best student in freehand and water colour in a given year...
...magnificent opportunity for Herr Zörgiebel to display to French and English observers the legitimate uses of his excessively military police department, actually a little army. Systematically his men attacked the Communist barricades with clubs and fire hoses, then with pistols, then with rifles, finally with machine guns, armored cars. Airplanes flew overhead, spotting snipers...
...Roman tomb, long owned by Dukes of Portland, the vase had been announced for auction by the present Sixth Duke, "owing to the exigencies of the present times." For 119 years the Portlands had loaned it to the British Museum. But last week, as it stood on display in Christie's London auction rooms, many a Britisher went for a last look. Everyone supposed, of course, that "some rich American" would carry off the treasure. Even Edward of Wales strolled in, peered at the exquisite white and blue glass scene of the marriage of King Peleus and Thetis, Queen...
...Fogg Museum, there is now on display a collection so sketches made by H. B. Hoover, M. Arch. 1926. Hoover was awarded both a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship and the Nelson Robinson Jr. Travelling Fellowship and made these sketches during his journeys aboard...