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...mountain streams trickle through the Black Forest, unite at Donaueschingen, about 20 miles from the Swiss border and 40 miles from the French frontier, and the Danube (German, Donau) begins its 1725-mile flow through Wiirttemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Yugo-Slavia, Bulgaria and Rumania to empty itself into the Black...
...artist's portrait of Lady Sassoon-an arrogant, amazingly refined countenance portrayed with the delicate distinction characteristic of aristocracy and Sargent at their best. There, too, was one of Mr. Sargent's famed Werthheimer portraits. There was Munning's picture of the Prince of Wales on Forest Witch, his graceful chestnut mare. There was Sir James J. Shannon's portrait of the Princess Patricia, loaned by the Duke of Connaught. There were two Hogarths from The Rake's Progress series, two portraits by Reynolds, a romantic landscape by Gainsborough, a liberal representation of other 18th...
Winthrop Weatherbee Jr. '26 of Boston was elected treasurer; Charles Allen Smart '26, of Forest Hills, N. Y., was elected secretary, Samuel Whiting '26 of Hingham was made business manager, and Richard Linn Edsall of Millwood, Va., was elected Pegasus. The following were added to the literary board: J. D. Keogh '25, Hugh Whitney '25, S. F. Ayers '26, and H. N. Doughty '26. Mr. S. Foster Damon '14 was elected an honorary member of the literary board in recognition of his services to the Advocate during...
Wall Street professionals are learning the difficulty of being unable to see the forest for the trees. Hard-bitten by many years of experience in stock speculation, they believe that what goes up must come down, and have therefore been led to sell short many of the leading speculative stocks. But the market keeps on upward, steadily and remorselessly. The paradoxical result has been that many an amateur speculator west of the Alleghanies has, by continuing to buy stocks, serenely drubbed the professionals of the financial arena...
They were not Tilden and Johnston. They were not Borotra and Brugnon. They were much younger than that- slim high school lads in their teens. But to them the match was infinitely more important than any that was ever played at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. And they played ably- serving swiftly, slamming hard- there in a Manhattan armory, for the national junior indoor tennis championship. The larger of the two, Henry C. Johnson Jr., of Newton Academy (Waban, Mass.), was behind but wearing well, pulling up. The frail one, Horace G. Orser, of George Washington High School (Manhattan), had fatigued...