Award American Ambassador Degree at Oxford
In a colorful ceremony at Oxford university in England. Robert W. Bingham, United States ambassa
dor, received the honorary degree of doctor of civil law as a gesture of friendship with the United States
and recognition of personal merit. Shown just before the ceremony, are (left to right) Ambassador Bingham:
Dr. Cyril Bailey, the public orator; and Joseph A. C. Avenol, secretary general of the League of Nations,
who also received honorary degrees.
SETTLES WITH INSULL j
Mme. Helen Coyimzoglu, of Ath
ens, Greece, who recently accepted
A settlement for her claims against
Samuel Insull, former utilities mag
nate, for her services while she
sheltered him during his fugitive
days in Athens in 1933 and 1934.
The Grecian beauty journeyed all
the way to Chicago from Greece.
Her attorney agreed to a settlement
reported at $4,500.
Champion Steer Brings S3 a Pound
G-Page. the 1936 grand championship steer at the recent International
Live Stock exposition in Chicago was sold at auction for $3 a pound or
a total of $3,060, since its weight was 1,020 pounds. The champion, an
Aberdeen Angus, owned by the Oklahoma A. & M. college, is shown
above in care of Arthur MacArthur, chief herdsman of the college.
New Plane Folds Wings for Speed
The new “Varivol” plane, invented by Jacques Gerin of Paris, France,
which folds its wings while in flight to increase its speed. The maximum
speed is 300 kilometers an hour. The full wing surface is 23 square
meters and the reduced surface is 71 square meters. The plane weighs
1,300 kilograms.
TUGWELL’S SUCCESSOR
W. W. Alexander, assistant re
settlement administrator. He will
replace Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell,
who resigned as rural resettlement
administrator to accept an execu
tive position with a large New York
business firm.
Sunset Silhouette on California Strand
Coronado’s Silver Strand, near San Diego, Calif., is an autumn and winter playground for America’s
social register set. In the above photo, three of the younger set are shown on the famous strand at even
tide.
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Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—Wearing new uniforms and specially designed steel helmets, a battalion of the Red army parados in
Moscow. 2—Edward F. McGrady (standing) confers with labor and transportation officials in San Francisco
to provide food for Alaska, shut off by maritime strike. 3 -M. Max Dormoy, appointed to the French cabinet
post vacated by the suicide of M. Roger Salengrol.
Expedition Sails for South Seas
Members of the Denison-Orockett expedition of the Academy of Nat
ural Sciences of Philadelphia aboard their schooner “Chiva” before sail
ing from Gloucester, Mass., for a study of anthropology and zoological
specimens on seldom visited islands of the South Seas.
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Miss Mary Lowe Gaddis of Mil
ton, Mass., whose engagement to
Kcrmit Roosevelt, Jr., grandson of
the late President Theodore Roose
velt, was announced by her moth
er, Mrs. Avery Gaddis. Miss Gad
dis, who made her debut last win
ter, is a sophomore at Radcliffe
college.
University of Iowa Tries Out Dry Night Club j
First nighters at the latest educational experiment, ‘he University of Iowa sponsored liquorless night club
established so “that students would have home-town entertainment and would remain olT dangerous high
ways over the week ends.” Called the Silver Shadow, the club had its premier recently with a complete floor
show and even a wandering troubadour, Donato Petruceelli, law student, shown above.
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GRAIN GROWING KING |
Herman Trelle of Wembley, Al
berta, Canada, who won the grand
championship for both wheat and
oats at the International Live Stock
exposition and Grain and Hay
show at Chicago. This is the second
time in history Trelle has performed
this feat, winning both titles in 1926.
Since then he has won each title
several times.
Beard Growing Champions of Japan
Proud contestants posing after the judging in the national beard
“championships” at the Koraku restaurant in Tokyo. Some of the con
testants are wealthy. Some Japanese believe that long beards bring
monetary good luck because the men shown on Japanese currency ah
have full beards.
VIDA knew all the tricks. You
see, she read a lot. Books on
every conceivable subject Even
magazine articles and fiction.
( Unfortunately Vida’s facial beau
ty was next to nil. When, at the age
of eighteen, she came to a full re
alization of this, and an under
standing of its possible consequence
she was at first unhappy. But
being a sensible person, sensible
enough to look at the thing squarely,
she sought for other means to
achieve her end. The end was a
man; love, romance and happiness.
The other means were presented
in the form of books, learning how
to put yourself across when you
weren't particularly attractive; re
sorting to devices and technique
that good looking girls didn't have
to employ. She read sedulously; re
ferred to the printed word for set
tlement of her every problem; com
pared her own experiences with
those of heroines, abiding by their
decisions, and always adopting their(
tactics.
The results were exceedingly
gratifying. Even now, at the
age of twenty - two, the man of
her dreams was practically within
her grasp. Give her another month,
two at the most, and he would speak
the words that would make her hap
piness and triumph complete.
The man's name was Glen Lam
phier. He was one of those fine,
good looking, upstanding specimens
of young manhood. Intelligent, gra
cious, and with a promising career
ahead of him. The type who ap
pealed by exerting only a minimum
of effort. Vida had aimed high in
selecting him as the object of her
acquired charms, but the thought
of failure had never once entered
her head.
She had aroused his interest Dy
heeding the dictates of her fiction
heroines. And Glen had seen the
light. He had come to realize that
behind the plain features of this
girl were quality, intelligence,
breeding. His initial feeling of casu
al interest was supplanted by some
thing deeper, more lasting, some
thing bordering on love and re
spect.
In a word, Vida had been success
ful in her enterprise—up to a point.
Unhappily, it appeared now as if
that point might prove a stumbling
block, an insurmountable obstacle.
For the month passed, and another,
and Glen did not utter the words
she longed to hear. '
Coming into the living room one
evening she found him waiting for
her, comfortably ensconced before
the fireplace, a volume of Oscar
Wilde open in his lap. The fact that
her entrance did not distract his
attention piqued her no end. She
hesitated a moment before making
known her presence, and in that
moment the feeling of being piqued
gave way to torment. Suddenly she
realized that something had hap
pened, that she was losing her hold,
that Glen’s interest was on the
wane.
The thought made Vida unhappy.
In the days that followed she brood
ed over it, puzzled over it, referred
to her books in desperation, but
without satisfaction. The books had
no suggestion to offer for such a
situation.
A week later, sitting before the
living room lire, Vida abandoned
seeking an answer to her problem
and, for lack of something better
to do, picked up the copy of Oscar
Wilde and opened it. Her eye
chanced to fall on a paragraph,
which had been lightly checked with
a pencil. She read through it with
a rapidly increasing pulse. “—I
really don’t see anything romantic
in proposing. It is very romantic to
be in love. But there is nothing ro
mantic about a definite proposal
. . . The excitement is all over.
The very essence of romance is un
certainty.”
Vida stood up, and there was a
wild look in her eyes. Glen had
read thatparagraph. He had checked
it with his pencil. H e had re
membered that her faith in books,
in the printed word was profound.
She made her way to the book
case behind the fireplace. Her eyes
scanned the volumes contained
therein. She removed a copy of
O’Brien’s short stories, leafed it
through, found the passage she
sought, and then underscored it
heavily.
Glen called an hour later. H he
was annoyed at the long interval
in the living room before Vida’s ap
pearance, he did not betray that
fact. Instead, he seemed deeply in
terested in reading a paragraph from
a volume of O’Brien’s short stories,
which he found lying upon the table.
He read it through twice before
Vida’s voice disturbed him.
He was glad she had come. He
welcomed her eagerly. He had some
thing to say, something that could
not wait. He said it incoherently,
babblingly, but plain enough for
Vida to understand and nod her
head in acquiescence.
Later that night Vida returned the
volume of O’Brien to its shelf, first
reading through the underscored
paragraph. ”... and so at last,
wearied of waiting for his proposal
Agnes found her love growing cold,
found herself entertaining a lively
interest in other men—men who
seemed to possess the courage to
assert themselves ...” She smiled
thinking how dearly she would al
ways treasure her books.
