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Russell Hall will be torn down during the summer of 1931 and a new building erected on its site, to complete the dormitory space of Adams House, it was announced at University Hall yesterday. These changes in the original plans are made possible by the further generosity of Mr. Edward S. Harkness...
...home in Paris) last week, it was rumored and denied that he was not gone "for the holidays" but to India for momentous consultations. Stock reasons why Britain must hold India: 1) "she cannot relinquish her trust"; 2) deprived of the Pax Britannica, India would be torn with Hindu-Moslem civil war; 3) "Britain is the only sure defense of the Untouchables," some 45,000,000 souls; 4) politically Indians are too "childish" to rule themselves. In India Last Week...
...finished his interesting and highly amusing lecture, when the platform was stormed by a misguided group of souvenir hunters fighting to obtain the cartoons which he had drawn during the course of his lecture. In the melee which ensued, the easel was upset, and many of the drawings were torn to pieces by these pseudo-gentlemen, supposedly engaged in acquiring culture at Harvard...
...Pittsburgh it became known that the late Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime (1923-25) U. S. ambassador to Spain, had torn up a will in which he had made ample provision for Dorothy Russell O'Reilly Calvit, only daughter of the late famed Actress Lillian Russell, who was Mr. Moore's wife. Her explanation: he was annoyed at articles by Mrs. Calvit published last year in Liberty, where she wrote that Mr. Moore's mother had once run a Pittsburgh boardinghouse. As a result he cut her off with $1,000. Counsel for Mrs. Calvit announced: "If necessary...
...Thumb golf rooms. Specially designed murals of toping fauns and bare-breasted ladies had been installed. Cabaret entertainment, dancing and games were provided without cover charge. Payment for refreshments were arranged, as in her "former place," by selling books of $1 tickets, one (or more) to be torn off by the waiter or bartender each time he serves a customer...