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Calm hung over the quiet west London suburbs of Acton, Chiswick and Ealing. Housewives popped in & out of neighborhood stores with hardly a glance at the sky. They felt perfectly safe; the Germans hadn't been over London for months. It was a few minutes after nine on Armistice Day morning...
Under the leadership of James W. Dow '41, the Outing Club will hold a joint skating and feasting party with Wellesley this Saturday on the shores of Lake Waban; afterwards the Club will go to a West Acton barn dance...
...made his first play in the market-a $3.12 profit on Burlington Railroad common. He was 15 then, a board boy in Boston's Paine, Webber & Co. They told him to stay out of the bucket shops or quit his job. He quit. A towheaded greenhorn from West Acton, Mass., son of a poor Yankee farmer, he began beating the bucket shops at their own game until they refused to take his business. With $2,500 in his pocket, 21 years behind him, he lit out for Wall Street...
...rulers, Queen Maria Carolina and King Ferdinand, Lord Hamilton and his courtesan-wife, the hero Nelson, and the nefarious Acton, privy councillor, are skillfully contrasted with the populace of Naples, aristocrats, shopkeepers, servants, and the appalling "Iazzarone", who lived like beasts in filthy holes by the sea, coming out only at night or when there was looting to be done. Vincent Sheean's first novel is excellent. Never, as the jacket-blurb says, actually anti-historical, it is an impressive demonstration of the mingling in just proportion of literal fact and educated imagination...
...each by King Edward and Queen Mary to head subscriptions to the King George Memorial Fund for children's play places. June 13 surprise visit with Minister of Labor Ernest Brown ("The Man With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") to training centres at Slough and Acton where jobless British men are being taught to become mechanics, painters, hotel waiters and hairdressers...