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...letters were running about 50-50 on the subject when R. W. Alston whose inquiring mind had profited by the August bank holiday offered a new idea: "Recently I visited the seaside and was flattered to find myself the object of attentive curiosity until I realized that the ladies who met me with arched eyebrows were not surprised or delighted, but merely plucked and therefore incapable of any other expression...
...members are: E. Alston Blackwell; John L. Donnell; Robert J. Glaser; R. Stuart Hoyt; Cranston E. Jones; Christian M. Laurlitzen, 2nd.; John H. Loeb; Lloyd Mills, Jr.; Phill G. Neal; Joseph C. Pesden, Jr.; Alfred W. Putnam; Brooks Ryder; Templeton Smith; Donald M. Thurber; D. Willson Webb; Roger L. Werner; and William P. Young...
...Treaty of Peace with England in 1783 from the Morgan LIbrary. Interesting because the subject is so seldom seen was a portrait of Grecian-nosed Theodosia Burr by John Vanderlyn. Beloved only child of Aaron Burr, she was her father's companion and housekeeper for years, married Governor Alston of South Carolina, and in 1812 disappeared mysteriously at sea on her way from Charleston to New York. For years, embittered Aaron Burr used to haunt Manhattan's Battery for news of her ship. Also on view was a portrait of an even prettier woman, widowed by Aaron Burr...
...country's envoy. In the South good Squire Bingham has few cronies closer than Judge Shepard Bryan of Atlanta. In turn Judge Bryan's Titian-haired, freckle-faced daughter Mary, of Oglethorpe University, has few chums closer than that peaches & cream sub-deb pair, Louise Richardson and Anne Alston. Twice has Anne Alston been crowned "Queen of the May," first at Atlanta's Washington Seminary and again this year at Ogontz, near Philadelphia...
...Alston Chase discusses with force and courage creative scholarship as a criterion for the selection of professors and tutors in the current issue of the Critic. Considered as whole, the article is important in that it takes up many problems whose solutions should be forged on the anvil of debate. The question of a tutor's qualifications, however, is one which deserves particular consideration...