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...been charged in the past, not without basis, that the University took an unwarranted attitude of self-sufficiency in the face of public criticism. Failure to deny or explain is too easily twisted into something else. In the present case, however, that charge cannot be made. Criticism was baseless from the beginning, since the University only acceded to the mayor's request on condition that the arrangement be legally approved, and further renounced any profit from the enterprise. In the face of these facts, further comment is unnecessary...
...Cruises Cancelled" in TIME, Jan. 11, you mention among other items of travel news that Cie Internationale des Wagons Li ts et des Grands Express Européens abandoned the Manhattan office (No. 701 Filth Avenue). This statement, technically correct, is nevertheless misleading. It would have been better to explain that the building was abandoned, and not the office. This office staff, furniture, etc., was moved from its one-story premises at No. 701 Fifth Avenue to the recently enlarged Thos. Cook & Son offices at No. 587 Fifth Avenue, comprising six working floors. (Thos. Cook & Son and Wagons-Lits merged...
...Sheriffs. Willie Johnson was at liberty pending investigation of the gunplay in which he figured. Since no patriotic Kentucky peace officer wants to nourish the State's oldtime reputation for feuds, only the Smith-Gambil affray was placed in that category. The State was at a loss, however, to explain the 23 killings which took place in the same two days. Others...
...under" as well as any other place on the Globe, Three Men and a Woman is concerned with the doings in a lighthouse on Cape Forlorn, New Zealand. Why the God-fearing keeper (William Desmond) married his lecherous wife (Franc Hale) is something Australian Playwright Frank Harvey does not explain. When her husband goes to the mainland, she betrays him with his assistant (old Melodramatist Walker Whiteside). When an absconder turns up with the loot of an investment company to which her husband's savings are entrusted, she promptly switches her affections to him. When the absconder jumps...
...should he the task of the Consultant on Careers to explain that the halycon professions are shot with drabness and to decipher some of the more homely truths of the business world. It is not positions which undergraduates need so much as information about the fields towards which they gravitate. It is safe to say that almost every man who has been able to graduate from Harvard can be of some effective use in the world, if he finds himself in the correct environment. The Consultant on Careers should spare him the bewilderment and bitterness of disillusion which so often...