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Publisher George Joseph Hecht of Parents' Magazine opened a safe in his Manhattan office one day last week, extracted a bulky sheaf of papers, handed it almost furtively to a trusted employe. If the bundle had contained gold Publisher Hecht would not have guarded it more zealously. It was a list of 50,000 mothers of pupils in more than 200 private and suburban schools in the New York metropolitan area. To those mothers Publisher Hecht sent the first monthly issue of his Metropolitan Mothers' Guide...
...handful of boys are leaving Harvard. They leave behind a few great names, a few thousand dollars, a few thrilling moments, and Harvard. That is the heritage which they pass on "that generations yet unkown may tell it to their heirs." With them they take away an education, a sheaf of memories, and the name of Harvard. They have obtained more than they can ever give. They have seen the cabs drive up in an October fog to the Somerset, they have seen Sever in twilight, they have heard great men, they have wandered home at night...
...toward Communism,- Josef Stalin's Communist Party advances by a series of zigzags, first zigging as far to the Left as the people will stand, then zagging a trifle to the Right, easing the strain. Came last week a major zag. Dictator Stalin and Premier Molotov signed a sheaf of decrees conferring on Soviet peasants for the remainder of 1932 these boons...
...Weimar the most striking floral tribute, everyone agreed last week, was an enormous sheaf of real Greek olive branches laid on Goethe's tomb by the representative of Greece. Ordinary flowers were bestowed in the name of India, Haiti, South Africa, Finland and 70 more nations. The U. S. wreath?not laid by Ambassador Sackett. who was in Paris-was deposited by a grave personage whose dry wit is concealed on public occasions by his Buddha-like mien. Councilor John Wiley, chief prop of Ambassador Willys in Poland. Read the wreath which Mr. Wiley deposited at the foot of Goethe...
Second night of the sale, devoted to minor items, was interrupted by the disposal of one major item of Americana which came, not from the Lothian library, but from that of George Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam. of Milton, Peterborough, England. Addressed "to the KINGS most excellent majesty," this musty sheaf of papers has had a career so interesting that most U. S. collectors value it second only to the Declaration of Independence.* Written in a neat spidery hand which is almost certainly that of John Dickenson of Pennsylvania, it was the final petition to George III by the American Colonies...