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...Eric Pedley No. 1 Michael Phipps...
Even the fat Swiss scrubwomen of the League of Nations were excited last week about Russia. As for M. Josef Avenol, the secretive, suspicious Frenchman who last year succeeded popular Sir Eric Drummond as League Secretary General, he became almost human. Secretary Avenol is a recluse who lives in a vast Geneva villa jammed with works of art and historical manuscripts he has picked up on his extensive travels. When Japan and then Germany quit the League, mournful M. Avenol prepared for the worst (TIME, Oct. 23). "The League has lost popularity and prestige," he croaked...
Confronted by traces of a general exodus into Yucatan between 530 and 629 A.D., archeologists have long held that the Mayas, driven out by famine, pestilence, war, or decadence, left the Old Empire cities wholly deserted. Last spring J. Eric Thompson of Chicago's Field Museum made excavations in the Old Empire site around San Jose, reported evidence of continuous occupation down to the 15th Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from...
...Fort Lee, N. J. Eric Heyn wrote two farewell notes, climbed up on the railing of a bridge, ready to jump 250 feet to death. As he teetered, Policeman Chester Kirvin shouted: "Get down or I'll shoot." Down got Eric Heyn...
Other officers elected were: vice president, Eric A. Walker 2G; treasurer, Armig G. Kandoian 4E.S.; corresponding secretary, Donald F. Wilcock 4E.S.; recording secretary, Joseph J. Gianino 3E.S.; and cataloguer, Charles N. Mason...