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...community house, a cinema theatre. But E. J. Baker, brother-in-law of the late Mr. Gates, who inherited several other millions of the Gates estate, owns another community house, another theatre and a skyscraper hotel on the West bank. Last week the East-West controversy was intense, had split the entire town. Wash ington had to be consulted...
Since their last split, after their 1926 football game, Harvard and Princeton have not participated in dual contests in any sport. Last week, however, sportsmen thought they saw first signs of a rapprochement in these two occurrences: Princeton Athletic Director Charles W. Kennedy was invited to officiate at the Harvard-Yale v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He accepted. Harvard Athletic Director William J. Bingham was invited to officiate at the Princeton-Cornell v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He too accepted...
Furthermore class spirit as such would be extremely difficult to construct after all members of the Senior class have been split up into definite and isolated groups. A Freshman is generally eager to make friends; he enlarges his circle of acquaintance beyond that of his past schoolmates to that of his class as a whole. The Senior on the other hand, especially if he has lived with the same group for three years is not as ready to meet the boy from across the hall. He has his friends, interests, and he has divisional examinations to keep his mind occupied...
...three days last week the crater, its mouth split and broken by the violence of convulsions within, spewed destruction while pious Italian peasants watched in terrified fascination, mumbling prayers that the engulfing flood would spend itself before it reached their homes. Hot ashes filled the air for miles around. A wall of steaming, writhing lava rolled fearfully along the Valley of Hell, smashing fences and houses before it, burying vineyards forever under a smoking, sluggish mass...
Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou was dinner guest in Manhattan last week of the Men's Hat Trade and Allied Industries. The 600 celebrants were bidden to wear dinner coats. On the invitations appeared the warning: "The correct straw hat to wear with a dinner coat is a china split yacht." Men wise in the intricacies of hat-making, hat-selling (TIME, May 27) gave learned speeches. Cinemactor Menjou, elegantly representing the hatted classes, declared that no properly dressed man would think of owning less than a dozen hats. He himself, epitome of grooming, owned 22, had brought them...