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...Herman Van Royen, Dutch Minister to the U. S. . . . LL.D...
...Theodore Herman Dreiser, 60, has begun to take stock of himself. Dawn, An Autobiography of Early Youth, is a portentous beginning. Couched in inimitable Dreiserese, stamped on every page with his trademark of bewildered honesty, it begins thus: ''The average earthling, as I have reason to know, has frequently the greatest hesitation in revealing the net of flesh and emotion and human relationship into which he was born and which conditioned his early efforts at living and too often his subsequent place in life and society. I am free to say here and naw that...
Through the corridors of the Department of Commerce building and of Washington's Mayflower Hotel last week stormed an exceedingly irate Dutchman-Anthony Herman Gerhard ("Tony") Fokker. He shouted threats at the Department, at Assistant Secretary Clarence Marshall Young for the "hasty" "hostile" and "prejudiced" action of suspending Fokker planes from U. S. passenger service (TIME, May 11), hinted that certain airmail operators might cancel their contracts with the Government, out of sympathy for his cause. He issued angry statements to the Press at 4 a. m. and repudiated them at 4:30 a. m. He thrust his head...
...Other academicians elected last week: Doctors Henry Bryant Bigelow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.; Edwin Broun Fred, University of Wisconsin; Edwin Crawford Kemble, Harvard: Adolph Knopf, Yale; Robert Harry Lowie, University of California; Joseph Haines Moore, Lick Observatory; Robert Lee Moore, Austin, Texas; Herman Joseph Muller, University of Texas, and George Linius Streeter, Carnegie Institution, Baltimore. Xew president: William Wallace Campbell, 69. president of the University of California, director of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton...
...better formula is known for exploiting an autobiography than to provoke a squabble between the autobiographer and some other celebrity. Even the well-told story of so florid a subject as Anthony Herman Gerard ("Uncle Tony'') Fokker* would have created no great splash when it appeared last week had not the book contained some acid comments by Fokker about Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, and had not an astute press-agent pre-advised newsmen of those comments. The book made headlines last week for the passages in a scant ten pages...