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Sharing long, long thoughts with Boston in her bereavement, Harvard cannot but reflect on how the love of symbols makes the whole world kin. From nursery days, every man garners to himself all manner of sticks and stones to remind him of great days passed and glories hoped for. There are totems for Indians, Ikons for Russians, aviators for Prussians, and St. George for England. And for Boston, a whittled pieces of pine--the sacred...
...April 14 the identification division of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation had 3,540,784 records of criminals and Federal civil service employes. It receives 2,200 (average) new prints daily, satisfies 45% of the queries it receives concerning arrested, dead and witless citizens. John Edgar Hoover (no kin), Director of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation, does not want his identification division considered a miraculous detective bureau. Says he, contrary to fictioneers: "Since the . . . system utilizes all ten fingers for the classification and filing of prints, it is extremely difficult for the bureau to identify latent fingerprints found...
...Author. Panteleimon Romanof (no kin to the Russian royal family) is known to some U. S. readers as author of the surprisingly light-hearted novel, Three Pairs of Silk Stockings. Of peasant origin, he was 33 at the Revolution. He began his literary career by writing humorous short stories, failed to get an audience till the Revolution gave him one. Famed in Russia for his easy, straightforward style, his knowledge of popular psychology, he is no rigid propagandist for "the Party'' but a shrewd observer of the Russian people...
Ogden Livingston Mills and Malcolm Pratt Aldrich were elected directors of Southern Pacific. Darius Ogden Mills (grandfather) served on the board 1900-07; Ogden Mills (father) 1906-29. Malcolm Pratt Aldrich (no kin to Winthrop Aldrich chairman of Manhattan's Chase National Bank) was Yale football captain in 1921, is a financial protege of Edward Stephen Harkness...
...Frank Couzens (son of the Senator) are three of the 13 directors of the new National Bank of Detroit which two weeks ago succeeded the closed Guardian and First National Banks. Others: Donaldson Brown, vice president of General Motors; Henry Edward Bodman, Detroit lawyer; John Battice Ford Jr. (no kin of Henry), vice president of Michigan Alkali Co.; James Inglis, chairman of American Blower Corp.; Tracy W. McGregor, Detroit philanthropist; James Thayer McMillan, president of Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., vice president of the Detroit Free Press; Peter J. Monaghan, Detroit lawyer; James Stansbury Holden, president of the Detroit Real Estate...