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...Alexander Falconer, President of the University of Toronto, will come to Harvard as Ingersoll Lecturer for 1929-30, it was announced at University Hall yesterday afternoon. The appointment will bring Toronto's President here next spring. Recipient of many degrees including an LL. D. from Yale, Princeton, Glasgow, and Dublin, a D.D. from Edinburgh, a D.C.L. from Oxford, and a D. Litt, from Manchester, he has also been given the honor of Knight Commander of Saint Michael and Saint George...
Germans got the business because an Irish youth, T. A. McLaughlin. who graduated by Dublin University after the War, went job-hunting to Berlin, signed on with Siemens-Schuckert, dazzled his German bosses with talk of the profits they could make electrifying Ireland's Shannon. First in the field for his firm with ideas and plans, smart Dr. T. A. McLaughlin was able to sell the Free State Government his idea, is now actively in charge of the whole $35.000,000 development...
BALLOON-A Comedy in Four Acts- Padriac Colum-Macmillan ($2). Caspar rents his telescope in the Square (Act 1) in Megalapolis, a city much like Dublin. He deserts his trade to do a heroic thing: to go into the Hotel Daedalus, first to its Cafe (Act 2), then higher to its Hall of Palms (Act 3), then finally to its Roof Garden (Act 4). In all three places he asks this question: "Is a man born a hero or does he become a hero by doing heroic things?" In the Cafe, when a woman eyes him through a lorgnette...
Among last week's winners were Nottingham Cricketer Julian Cahn who won £62,000 ($300,000) in the London Stock Exchange Sweepstakes, Widow Kathleen McGrath of Dublin who won £25,000 in the Baltic Sweep, Clerk Butler of the Amalgamated Motors Ltd., Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa who had a Calcutta Sweepstakes ticket but was reported to have lost it, Jimmy Gibbs, 7, who had a ticket on Favorite Cragadour, part interest in which his father sold for $60,000 before the race, Engineer Arthur Court of Indianapolis who invested one reluctant dollar in the English Derby charity...
...Venice in the Eighteenth Century" will be the subject for a lecture to be given tonight by Dr. Walter Starkie, of the University of Dublin. Lantern slides will illustrate the principal scences described, and violin selections of old music will provide an accompaniment. The lecture will be held at 8 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, and will be open to the public...