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Barbara Munro Schurman, 65, relict of the late Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University, onetime (1925-29) Ambassador to Germany; of pneumonia; in Bedford...
...Emilie Thorn Post, relict of Tycoon Edward C. Post. Last May she gave her highwalled villa at Newport, R. I. to the Carmelite Sisterhood for a nunnery, became a novice therein (TIME, May 26). Because nuns must be poor, she last week yielded to the Museum her husband's collection of rare paintings, drawings, miniatures, objects in gold, silver, marble, bronze...
...Passed a bill granting free postal service to Helen H. Taft, relict of Chief Justice William Howard Taft...
POOR NIGGER-Orio Vergani-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). George Boykin, true to the best African tradition, was conceived, born and bred in total darkness. Bandied by harlots, sailors, soldiers, he saw much of life, understood little. While employed as a pimp in a Senegalese seaport, he first met Madame Germaine, relict of a French engineer; later went to her house after he had been shot in the shoulder in a cafe brawl. Madame Germaine, philanthropic, took him to France with her; lost him as soon as the boat landed. He worked as bootblack, ice-boy, thief, until he met Tommy Walsh...
Engaged. Mrs. Elinor Priscilla Kershaw Ince, 45, relict of pioneer Cinema Producer Thomas Harper Ince; and Holmes Herbert, 47, cinemactor. Producer Ince's will left her $1,600,000 provided she did not remarry for seven years. He died in 1924, reputedly of angina pectoris, having been stricken while yachting with Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Cinemactress Marion Davies and others...