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...Club was started more than 75 years ago and is now under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24 who last year succeeded Archibald T. Davison '06, associate professor of Music and conductor of the Club for the previous 22 years...
Automatically, of course, many of the best of the dismally few great American poems have been included but a little more effort in trying to select only those would make the volume more interesting. We miss Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, and Stephen Vincent Benet among the modern group and individual selections such as some of Emily Dickinson's "Life" beside the few cantos included here, Sidney Lanier's "The Marshes of Glynn", and Millay's "Wild Swans". To make room for these some of the emphasis could have been removed from Bryant and Longfellow and the volume would have been...
...from the Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains now dry but capable of becoming a second fruitful Egypt. The loss to British investors in the Sudan would be colossal, that to British prestige in Africa irretrievable. Last week sword-handy Britons of the more resolute school, such as General Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, brimmed with hostile advice. At the very least a British force padded with Egyptian and Indian troops ought to sneak up the Blue Nile and mount guard over Lake Tana. Also it would be well to make a naval demonstration of some...
Artist Wright, pale, stoop-shouldered, with greying hair and a clipped black mustache, is a nephew of the late great Art Collector & Railroad Tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington. His father, Archibald Davenport Wright, was an amateur painter, architect, and builder of the Southern Railroad. His brother is Willard Huntington Wright, better known as "S. S. Van Dine," author of the Philo Vance detective stories. Artist Wright loathes Writer Wright's stories. Maintaining the family independence, Father Wright never looked at anything that his sons produced...
Fortnight ago the selectmen of Marblehead voted to allow a reproduction of that Massachusetts town's pride, Archibald Willard's painting The Spirit of '76, to be made for use in the advertising campaign of a Lynn lamp works (TIME, Aug. 12). One who did not so vote was Town Clerk Richard Pratt, absent on vacation. Back in Marblehead last week Clerk Pratt reassembled the five selectmen, read them a stiff lecture on the step they had taken, reminded them that the last time the town government had authorized reproduction of The Spirit...