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...Comstock Notestein, Radcliffe President emeritus, will speak at the reception, and a full-length portrait of Dean Cronkhite will be presented to the College, William Abbott Cheever was the artist...
Where's Charley? (book by George Abbott; music & lyrics by Frank Loesser; produced by Cy Feuer & Ernest H. Martin in association with Gwen Rickard) sets to music that old piece of nonsense with nine lives, Charley's Aunt. The result is not happy, less because the 55-year-old farce is dead than because the new procedure is deadening...
...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide-books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, likes to quote from a parody of the series called "Rollo Visits Cambridge" in which Rollo asks Uncle George "What is a Dean?" and his sage relative replies: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman seated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then...
...Scene. But Gardiner's announcement made the convention a real contest. It gave hope to all candidates, including such dark horses as Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson and Brooke Claxton, Paul Martin, Clarence Decatur Howe, Douglas Abbott and Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power. Because of mechanical differences, Canadian conventions are not so easy to swing or control as U.S. conventions: the delegates vote individually by secret ballot; no candidate may rise to withdraw and publicly switch his support to another...
George H. Abbott, Andover. Hugh Amory, Dover. Peter Calingaert, Detroit, Michigan. Cornelius deW. Hastie, Takoma Park, Maryland. Nathan Newbury, III, Weston. Alfred T. Peaslee, Jr., Dubuque, Iowa. John W. Sears, Pride's Crossing. Alan R. Trustman, Brookline. Joseph S. Ullian, Newton Center. Herbert Barry, 3rd, Brookline...