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...listening to her. He stands before her, heels together, tall slim body bent deferentially towards her. That was the way he used to stand when, as naval lieutenant and Harvard undergraduate, he courted her. It absorbs her into the Byrd tradition, reminds her of his bright ancestor. Henri of Navarre, Henri IV of France...
...greatest interpreter of modern times,'and perhaps of any age, was Gustave Henri Camerlynck. Death found him, last week, in Paris, five days after he had taken to bed with influenza. As Chief Interpreter of the Paris Peace Conference, the Washington Conference, and the First Dawes Committee, Professor Camerlynck received the personal thanks of such statesmen as David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson. He was to have interpreted for the new Second Dawes Committee (see col. 2). As illness stole upon him last fortnight, Professor Camerlynck interpreted, for the last time, between Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France...
Buried in the musty minutes of the Washington Conference lies perhaps the perfect tribute to Gustave Henri Camerlynck-his rightful epitaph. As the Conference was about to adjourn, Arthur James Balfour. Chief of the British Delegation, rose with his usual majestic deliberation and sonorously addressed the Delegates...
...Camerlynck was even present on that celebrated evening when Georges Clémenceau and David Lloyd George are supposed to have gotten Woodrow Wilson convivially stimulated,, but if so the little Fleming never told. When asked in his later years: "Why don't you write your memoirs?" Gustave Henri Camerlynck always laconically replied. "I know too much." He was 60 when Death came...
Prizes, however, were awarded to work in fresh, distinctive modes. Robert Henri, bright, sketchy painter of children whose eyes would pop at dolls and toy engines, whose lips would pucker wetly at lollypops, won the Temple Gold Medal for painting with his fluffy, serious Wee Woman. A lean, angular and sour ancient in a dark figured dress, called Madame du Tarte, won for Richard Lahey the Carol Beck Medal for portraiture. Bruce Moore's Black Panther, in savage, undulating stride, won the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for sculpture...