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An eminent Greek professor once gave as a reason for the study of that language the feeling of quiet superiority a Greek scholar was able to maintain over the vast majority of people who did not share in his accomplishments. And so with the Photographic Department of the CRIMSON.
William Clissold is in London on his 59th birthday. It is dismally wet, so he falls to writing down what it feels like to realize that one's life is some four-fifths finished. Later he writes on and on, mostly in the mas (villa) in Provence where he...
PERELLA - William J. Locke -Dodd, Mead ($2). In Florence the most eminent art critic is, of course, king. So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has chanced to...
In Rome, Dr. Marco Porzio, great surgeon, was quoted as denouncing U. S. surgeons for "permitting" Rudolph Valentino to die (TIME, Aug. 30), after a mere "appendicitis" operation. The fact is, Rudolph Valentino died of septicaemia (blood poisoning) after the perforation of a gastric (stomach) ulcer. Polyclinic Hospital officials had...
Why were these so eminent statesmen hanged? Their death sentences declared them participants in the alleged plot to assassinate President Mustafa Kemal Pasha-as a result of which 13 suspects had already been executed (TIME, July 26). But this surprising total of 17 hangings can find no justification in a...