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...Norwegians and especially the Japanese think it is effeminate, many a modern Frenchman has abandoned the ancient & honorable Gallic custom of greeting friends with a resounding kiss on the cheek or jaw. So widespread has become the custom of shaking hands in France that last week the august L Académic de Médecine was asked for an opinion. Weightily the Academic considered, then over the voluble opposition of a youthful minority delivered these decisions: 1) the country man's hands carry fewer germs than the city man's, but 2) more germs change carriers during...
Last week, General Weygand presented himself as a candidate to fill the seat among the 40 "immortals" of L'AcadémÍe Française vacated by the late Marshal Joffre...
Boston Latin 81, 97: Phillips Exeter Acad. 12, 57; Milton Acad. 40, 23; Phillips Acad., Andover 24, 18; St. Paul's School 24, 20; Groton School 19, 17; Belmont Hill School 17, 7; Country Day School 16, 8; Cambridge High School 15, 14; St. Marks School 15, 19; Noble and Greenough 14, 9; Middlesex School 13, 18; Loomis Institute 12, 8; St. Georges School 10, 7; Roxbury Latin School 9, 5. Middle-town High 8, 2; Horace Mann School 8, 6; Choate School 8, 10; Tabor Acad. 7, 4; Thayer Acad. 7, 13; Worcester Acad. 7, 4; Avon Old Farms...
Author Frangois Mauriac, 42, militant Catholic traditionalist, poet, essayist, novelist, is a native of Bordeaux who went to Paris as a young man to lead the literary life. One of his books, Desert of Love, was crowned by the Académie FranÇhise. Other books: Thérèse, Destiny...
...Milton Davis, F. S. '30 Tackle 21 185 6.1 Loomis Devens, C. '32 Back 19 180 6.1 Groton Douglas, J. G., Jr. '30 End 21 185 6.1 St. George's Faxon, R. M. '32 Tackle 20 185 6.3 Milton Fullam, P. A. '32 Back 22 165 5.9 Chestnut Hill Acad. Gildea, J. H. '31 Center 20 183 6.0 Boston Latin Gilligan, F. J. '32 Back 22 185 5.11 Exeter Gilligan, T. W. '31 Back 20 182 6.0 Newton High Ginman, W. K. '32 Guard 20 178 5.11 Muskegon High Gleason, R. F. '32 Back 21 170 5.11 Worcester Greeley...