Americana

MANNERS & MORALS

P: The Pasadena, Calif, chapter of the American Institute of Architects earnestly resolved that its members for one year should address each other (even in conversation) as "Architect" instead of "Mister," to test whether the title added to the dignity and business volume of the profession.

P: The Harvard Lampoon offered $3 to "the sophomore who stands lowest in the class at the end of the year without actually being expelled from college."

P: A bill to designate the Missouri Waltz an official state song was killed by the Missouri senate after opponents had described it as a "low-rate, second-class barroom ballad."

P: After experimenting extensively with dogs (whose alcoholic capacity, pound for pound, is about the same as humans'), Dr. Henry W. Newman of Stanford University's medical school concluded that a man can handle a quart of whisky a day.

P: The gold-leafed piano (cost: $15,000) that once tinkled in the high-type bagnio run by the Everleigh sisters in Chicago (TIME, Sept. 27), was bid in for $95 by their biographer, Charles Washburn, at a Manhattan auction.

P: The sale of intoxicating liquors became legal in Kansas for the first time in 69 years.

P: Blaming its trouble on rural electrification and on the increased use of cigarette lighters and paper book matches, the Diamond Match Co. announced it would shut down its "kitchen match" plant in Oswego, N.Y. for ten weeks.

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