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Stuffy Dutch burghers, members of the Netherlands Society for Industry and Commerce, opened at their meeting in Rotterdam last week a letter as explosive as two sticks of dynamite. Signed by Holland's world potent petrol tycoon, Sir Henri Deterding, it urged the Netherlands to reduce the gold content of the gulden, "in order to help trade...
...Apprentice-Jockey Jack Westrope, 16: five races in a single afternoon,* on horses Bedight, Lady Menifee, Whirling, Cold Check and Prince Farthing; at Washington Park, Chicago. ¶ Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player: the French hard court singles title, defeating Henri Cochet in the final, 8-6, 6-1, 6-3; at Auteuil, France...
...British beard, staring out of spectacled grey eyes, he told reporters who wanted his reaction to the Rockefeller-Rivera fight (TIME, May 22), "Art is above politics. . . . No one need look at a picture unless he is interested in painting. For information he can go elsewhere." Then the great Henri Matisse sailed home for Nice and the short mural he had kept for himself...
Seven Philadelphia harpists played one night, dressed angelwise in flowing georgette robes with snoods around their heads. The Twin City Opera Company gave Rigoletto. University students gave Madame Butterfly. John Erskine, Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz, Ernest Hutcheson and Henri Deering played the piano. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Soprano Florence Macbeth (from Mankato, Minn.) sang. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored chamber music by the Gordon String Quartet. Twenty-five amateur choruses performed and an orchestra came from San Antonio, Tex., the players all in their early teens. Delegates who took a few hours off to buy presents to take home heard...
...fourth year in succession. Stanford's Coach Dink Templeton could have blamed it mostly on mishaps to his two best runners. Stanford's huge John Lyman shot-putted a new world's record of 52 ft. 8½ in.: Stanford men placed second and fourth. Henri Laborde won the discus throw as everyone knew he would. with two more Stanford men placed for points behind him. Bill Miller of Stanford tied Bill Graber of U. S. C. and three others in the pole vault. Herbert of Stanford won the 200-metre low hurdles which made three first...