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...World opinion has always regarded industry in the United States as a well-knit organization of high-pressure business, a crystallization of the pioneer spirit exemplified in its scientific management and efficient business methods, leaving the country little time for the cultural aspects of life. Whether or not this criticism would stand severe scrutiny, the American scholar has usually resorted to England or the Continent for any specialized research into the learning of the past ages and the cultural trend of the present. Once more America goes abroad, this time, by aiding the British government in a reorganization...
...Majesty the Queen officially opened the annual exhibition of Queen Mary's London Needlework Guild last week. She beamed with pride at the principal exhibit: three soft woolen scarves knit by the busy fingers of Edward of Wales, her eldest, and three other scarves knit by her youngest son Prince George...
...plays to Boston to replace the six closing this Saturday. Prominent among them will be "The Perfect Alibi", one of the few detective plays that had a really extended run on New York stages last season. A. A. Milne is the author and succeeds in constructing a well-knit and logical mystery story in his first venture into a new genre of writing. In the company are Vivian Tobin, Richie Ling, and Harry Beresford, as well as the complete supporting cast from the New York showing. "The Perfect Alibi" will open at the Plymouth Tuesday...
...poultry-selling racket (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week the New York authorities started action against another, similar game, common to all big cities-"coöperative" selling of loose (unbottled) milk. The New York milk racket was notable and illustrative by virtue of its central figure, a lank, loose-knit individual named Larry Fay. First taxicabs, then night clubs were Larry Fay's game, the latter in collaboration with famed Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. Loose night clubs are crowded at the same, time of day that loose milk is delivered. When Prohibition closed one after another of his clubs...
...into smaller units, each one a representative of at least the three upper classes, at Yale it is the individual class that is to be divided into houses. Past experience in New Haven has demonstrated the advantages of building the class as a strong and active body. A closely knit class at graduation possesses attractions not to be minimized and it seems likely that some of these advantages will be increased by the Yale House Plan...