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...Third Middlesex District runs up both sides of Mass. Ave. from Harvard Square to Arlington. It spreads west to Fresh Pond and forks into two precincts in Belmont...
Died. Eugene Barnett, 82, general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association from 1941 to 1953 and a principal architect of its expansion around the world; of a skull fracture suffered in a fall in his home; in Arlington, Va. As a young missionary, Barnett traveled to China in 1910 to found a Y in Hangchow. His sincerity and austere brand of Christianity impressed China's emerging leaders, notably Chiang Kaishek. Returning home in 1937, Barnett presided over vast U.S. and world growth that by 1953 had brought the Y.M.C.A.s into 77 lands...
Frost was plagued by professional jealousy. He resented every other poet from Eliot to Sandburg and suffered torments at Edwin Arlington Robinson's success. Even timid Marianne Moore seemed a threat. She "had been turning you against me," he wrote their common publisher...
...Rose produces dialogue like a witty tape recorder and invents caricatures just as effortlessly: a marvelously dirty-minded Jewish grandmother; a gentle, handsome racketeer who wants only to be liked. At his best Rose writes with sonorous richness that manages to suggest a blend of Nabokov and Edwin Arlington Robinson. One can hope that wit, style and moral imagination will save him from the truant temptations of fluency...
...Smith, of Berkeley, Calif., and Dunster House (Linguisties): Max well D. Solet, of Arlington, Va., and Eliot House (Government); Nathaniel I. Spiller, of Cambridge and Winthrop House (Government); Thomas A. Stewart, of Glencoe, I?., and Adams House (English): Henry A, Tanz, of Tueson. Ariz., and Quindy House (Physics): Allan B. Taylor, of North Haven, Conn., and Leverett House (Social Studies): Robert T. Teske, of Milwaukee. Wise., and Quincy House (Folklore and Mythology): Warren T. Treadgold, of Seattle. Wash., and Eliot House (History and Literature); B, Ko-Young Tung, of Tokyo. Japan, and Quincy House (Physics): Bruce C. Vladek...