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...National Gallery." No new thing to self-effacing Philanthropist Kress is example setting. For some years now he has been giving and lending noteworthy pieces from his collection to small but deserving museums throughout the nation. San Antonio, Charlotte, N. C., Montgomery, Wichita, Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix, Savannah and Macon have received permanent additions to their collections. New York, San Francisco, Milan and Brescia, Italy are currently exhibiting temporary loans of Kress...
Harvard would not be the nation's premier university were this list not long and impressive. That is to say that the good people of Macon and Fresno would not recognize her as such. One Bruening adds much more to her reputation than fifty conscientious and sympathetic instructors. And speaking quite seriously, it is essential for a university to nurture her reputation in this manner. Public relations are not the least among the worries of a modern college president...
...Women like me ... are the safest members of society," declared Novelist Pearl S. (for Sydenstricker) Buck to her fellow alumnae of Randolph-Macon College. But women who do not employ their talents and their education, "they ought to be despised...
...Lawyer Coe was the youngest man ever to be commissioner when Franklin Roosevelt appointed him five years ago (he says modestly that there were few patent lawyers who were also Democrats). Well-groomed, "black-haired Conway Coe got his first job in the Patent Office when he left Randolph-Macon College in 1918. Studying law on the side, he naturally made patents a specialty, soon became one of the nation's crack patent lawyers, building a tidy practice in Washington...
...last week that lowest annual temperatures ordinarily occur in the U. S. in the period from ten to 40 days after the winter solstice (Dec. 21 or 22, day when the sun is farthest south of the Equator). From Montana to Maine and as far south as Memphis and Macon, U. S. inhabitants could well believe him. In two waves real winter cold rolled down on them from Alaska and the Canadian Northwest...