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...raping Mrs. Mary Denston, 71. by a mob in Princess Anne, Md. (TIME, Oct. 30): refusal by Somerset County State's Attorney John B. Robins to arrest nine members of the lynching mob identified by eyewitnesses, at the request of Maryland's Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr. who said he "even drew maps showing what they did and where they were." Reason for the refusal: "I don't believe those men would stay in jail. I believe a crowd would form and take them away...
Major General Preston Brown, commander of the Panama Canal, to succeed General Parker in the Chicago area. An efficient "old school" soldier, General Brown is blunt, baldpated, muscular. Son of an Army colonel, he went to Yale, got his appointment to West Point while serving as an enlisted man in the regular army. His successor in the Panama Department is Major General Harold Benjamin Fiske who was last week promoted from brigadier and shifted from command of the Atlantic sector to command of the whole department. Large-boned, calm Major General Ed- win Baruch Winans, sportsman and socialite, commander...
...Harry Preston, onetime amateur bantamweight champion of England, good friend of Edward of Wales...
...First of a series of eight pictures being made at Fox studios by an individual producing unit under Paramount's onetime Vice President Jesse Lasky, Zoo in Budapest should excite interest in forthcoming Lasky productions, of which The Warrior's Husband, Berkeley Square and a picture by Preston Sturges, to be called The Power & the Glory, have been announced. During the manufacture of Zoo in Budapest, the Fox studio in Hollywood contained the third largest menagerie in the U. S. The animal most amenable to direction was the gibbon (Amos), who is accustomed to camera work. Most intractable...
Such outstanding painters as Charles Burchfield. Preston Dickinson, Edward Hopper, and John Marin are represented in the display of water colors in gallery 9, while in gallery 14 are a group of oils by such French painters as Dapra Millet, and de la Pena. The majority of these were given to the Museum, and one by Ralph Isham '88, the donor the organ in the Memorial Church. The Japanese prints are hung in gallery 15 and, in gallery 16 are a group of Chinese bronzes, pottery, woods, and other objects jets...