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...show what he knew about picture-making might do well to take a look at this sample of his ideas. The Amateur Gentleman set records in several London theatres. It was made by Fairbanks at the Gaumont plant, with money supplied by a London syndicate headed by Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, rich, conservative M. P. from St. Marylebone. A large canvas of early 19th Century London, it preserves with florid elegance the swagger of its period. In the early 1800's a man could be hanged for stealing thirteen pence. When Mr. Barty, a retired prizefighter turned innkeeper...
...mile relay in which Harvard will be at its strongest. Alec Northrop, strong miler, Bill O'Connor, a 600-yarder who has traveled the distance in 1:16, Sherman Brayton, a sophomore, and Cleveland Floyd all will be extended by the Cornell team which promises to break the eight minute mark and which is sending its strongest team in years, but they don't appear to have enough to win the two-mile relay...
Richard A. Brayton '37 whom Jaakko spotted as a 300-yarder after he had come over from the cross-country squad, is expected to set the pace in this race. Alfred J. Hanlen '39 and Alec C. Northrop will match strides in the 600-yard event with the relatively short distance favoring the Freshman...
...damn you, TIME, for your smearing article on that great and scholastic Liberal, Mark Sullivan [TIME, Nov. 18]. Did it. ever occur to your smart-alec brood of newsquacks to bother to define what true American liberalism is? Here's a challenge...
...Cambridge; William F. Schreiter '38, of Walpole; Richard E. Schultes '37, of E. Boston; Joseph Share '37, of Salem; Robert F. Sharp '37, of Wollaston; Paul H. Silbert '37, of Brookline; Eliot N. Silverman '38, of Brookline; Theodore Singer '38, of Dorchester; Daniel T. Skinner '38, of Roxbury; Alec Skolnick '36, of Dorchester; Ralph I. Smith '38, of Braintree; Alcibiades E. Sophos '38, of Lowell; Manes Specter '36, of Cambridge; Frank H. Stedman, Jr. '37, of Jamaica Plain; Edward D. Sullivan '36, of Dorchester; Arthur Szathmary '37, of Quincy; Alfred W. Teichmier, Jr. '38, of Lawrence; John A. Thierry...