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Sultan of Sulu, Philippine potentate: "Despite my recent o position (TIME, June 21), the marriage of my daughter, Tarhata Kiram, with Datu Tahil, local dignitary is fulfilled. Tarhata, graduate of the University of Illinois, has given up her bobbed hair and rolled stockings. She entered Datu Tahil's harem as his fourth wife; Mohammedan law allows no greater number."
John J. Mitchell, potent Chicago banker: "Last week I welcomed to the directorate of my bank, the Illinois Merchants' Trust Co., William H. Mitchell (investment securities), the first of my three sons to be so honored; two other directors elected were Eugene M. Stevens, vice president of the bank; Charles W. Nash, President, Nash Motors Co."
The Rev. Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, President of St. Stephen's College (Episcopalian): "The trustees of our .college issued a statement that the need for a college in the lower Hudson Valley, and for a country residence college near Manhattan, a college free from conformity to stereotyped pedagogy, was so strongly felt that St. Stephen's (Annandale-on-Hudson) would now be doubled in size if two millions could be raised. If doubled, St. Stephen's would have a student body of 250 men. Preference would no longer be given to members of its special patron, the Episcopal Church."
Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany: "London telephones to New York. Oslo telephones to Geneva. Berlin telephones to Vienna, but only by way of Czechoslovakia until last week, when I officially opened the first direct Berlin-Vienna telephone cable by a short talk with President Michael Hainisch of Austria."
Paul Poiret, .plump Parisian dressmaker: "I last week went on a theatrical barnstorming tour, with my friend 'Colette,' naughty-novelist and onetime wife of Publisher-Senator Henry de Jouvenel. We have before appeared together on the boards for a night or two at a time, in sketches of our own composition, and we draw as audience the art world of France, people who, overlooking our middle age, call us 'irrepressible children.' '
Walter ("Uncle Walter") Damrosch, conductor: "Last week when I and the New York Symphony Orchestra gave one of our concerts for children (TIME, Dec. 27), I chatted expansively with the youngsters. Said I: 'When the papers published my resignation ... I had the interesting experience of reading the beautiful obituaries. But what touched me most,' I continued, 'were the hundreds of young people's letters I received begging "dear Uncle Walter" not to give up his children's concerts. 'How could I?' said I. There was great applause."
General Umberto Nobile, polar dirigible engineer: "Undepressed by my contretemps in Davenport, Iowa (TIME, Dec. 20), I last week sailed from San Francisco for Japan, where my assistance has been requested by the Japanese government in supervising the assembling and test flights of a dirigible under construction for the Japanese Navy. At Davenport I had had trouble in lecturing in English; in San Francisco I lectured in Italian."