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During the last two days, the decorative scheme has been rushed to completion. The triangle between Standish and Smith Halls and the Freshman gymnasium, which will be cloistered tonight by a canvas wall, has been festooned with gay Japanese lanterns, as well as the Smith quadrangle. Music will be furnished by Bert Lowe's Orchestra and the Harvardinas, led by Roy Lamson...
That decided at 80 Broadway, a message sped around the corner to the National City Bank Building on Wall Street...
Thousands of small speculators, who have been largely responsible for the three months hubbub in Wall Street, were last week seized with the same idea. Each of them suddenly became air-minded; each of them wanted to stow away, or play with, a few shares of air stock. True enough, they had played intermittently with air stocks since the Paris flight of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, but never as they did last week...
...private business associates control it. (The Mellons also own the Koppers Co. which manufactures equipment for making artificial gas.) The Mellons are at least not opposed to vast business consolidations, which violate no laws. They have shared through their various companies in many a vast concretion of interests, and Wall Street is certain that their $100,000,000 Brooklyn Union Gas will go into Consolidated...
...Maurois in-itroduces Author Green as "the best novelist of his generation." Others have declared him Balzacian, and murmured of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, for his uncanny realism is not of the modern self-conscious variety. Master of detail-heavy odor of wistaria over the garden wall, crunch of wheels on the gravel, pebbles shaping the brook into a plaited pattern-no single word is superfluous, and each image blends into an unforgettable whole...