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Convening in Leverett House at scheduled intervals, the members informally sit around sipping wine amidst the flickering shadows cast by candle-light, while reciting the most ghostly and frightening stories they can find...
Five months to the day after Gay's disappearance, Camb went on trial for his life. He sat in the dock at the Hampshire Assizes in a shedlike courtroom of canvas and plywood, incongruous amidst stained glass and granite pillars, within the 13th Century Great Hall of Winchester Castle. Most of the space in the public gallery was occupied by fashionably dressed women, many of whom appeared daily at 5:30 a.m. to make sure of a seat. The press made much of this welcome diversion from the European crisis...
Unique as a club tie at the Hasty Pudding, Leverett House stands in quiet and unobtrusive respectability amidst the river breezes, reveling in the glories of the only trapezoidal dining hall in Cambridge and the only House tennis court...
Thus-last week began the third act of a romantic Balkan operetta which (thus far) had carried Rumania's 26-year-old King Michael and pretty Princess Anne Antoinette Franchise Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma through a lyrical, whirlwind courtship amidst the glitter of a British royal wedding and the dark second act of a Communist coup d'état in Bucharest...
...Amidst the turmoil, TIME Correspondent William Gray encountered a remarkable instance of how polite the Chinese can be. Cabled Gray from Shanghai...