Three immigrants, now U. S. citizens, were awarded annual scrolls of the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare for "significant contributions to American life": Russian-born David Sarnoff, 48, President of R. C. A.; Scotland-born William Allan Neilson, 70, President of Smith College; Moravian-born Albin Polasek, 60, famed Chicago sculptor.
In Manhattan for a visit landed Idaho-born Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, loudest and funniest U. S. expatriate. Still arrogant, shrill, red-bearded, he readily announced: "I came over only because I'm curious. ... I regard the literature of social significance as of no significance. It is...
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