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Salmon Oliver Levinson, 63. robust, mender of broken corporations, was one of the few civilians invited to the White House ceremony for the promulgation of the general Treaty for the Renunciation of War, because, as Chairman of the American Committee for the Outlawry of War, to him belonged much unofficial credit for originating the idea of making war illegal. Ceaseless agitator for peace, he had been recommended by no less a journal than the Manchester Guardian for the Nobel Peace Prize. Quite happy now, he sat back, watched the culmination of his endeavors...
...Hrdlička, who a fortnight ago predicted intellectualized human hobgoblins of the future (TIME, April 29), and last week declined to dissect his dead friend (see below), eyed his Academy colleagues and told them that they were on the average more robust and healthy than the average U. S. citizen, that their heads as well as their minds were bigger...
Helmle & Corbett have raised spires and pediments throughout the East. Most famed is the tan, delicately Gothicized tower of their Bush Terminal office building in Manhattan. In London they thrust up the robust U. S. contours of Bush House among the fragile graces of Christopher Wrenn and Inigo Jones. In Alexandria, Va., they are now building the George Washington Masonic National Memorial...
Another donor, Robert Francis Gardiner, has sold his blood 73 times in nine years. Shrewd, he has assembled a gang of 300 robust Bowery down-&-outs, dock-wallopers, truck drivers and chauffeurs whose blood he sells to New York hospitals. Outdoor workers serve best...
...Trust Co. and National Bank of Commerce combine would be extended to include the Corn Exchange Bank; that First National would merge with Bankers' Trust; that National City would merge with Equitable Trust Co.; that Chase National would unite with Brooklyn Trust Co. Then there was a truly robust rumor that linked Guaranty Trust Co., National Bank of Commerce, Bankers' Trust and First National in a Morgan-group merger that would be the super bank of all the world. The rumors were all denied and seemed to consist of smoke rather than fire...