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Dick Dorson is optimistic about the prospects of his Yardling team this spring. Jim Jenkins of Hawaii, Don Daniels of California, Aubrey Gould of Long Island, and Willard Nicholl of Brookline, appear most promising from the Class of 1943. They are expected to form the nucleus of a better than average freshman squad...
...using liye girls instead of books, two Yardlings, Aubrey Gould '43 and Robert Cooney '43, claim to have found the solution to the old problem of combining homework with pleasure...
...admired-Painter Jimmie Whistler, who hammered home the theory that art has no morals and trained Wilde in the most cynical wit of the century; Ernest Dowson, hashish-smoking, tuberculous poet who died young in the gutter after writing Cynara, a poetic rosary for disillusioned young men; Artist Aubrey Beardsley, spidery, sardonic, tuberculous genius, called "the most monstrous of orchids" by Wilde; French Novelist Huysmans, who carried decadent experiments in subtle sensations as far as they have ever gone; Theophile Gautier, "Holy ghost of the exotic-aesthetic, satanic-mystical school;" Smithers, the fantastic under-the-counter bookseller, "wonderful and depraved...
Motley Hollywood society tends to split clannishly along party lines (the kind of parties they go to, not the kind they belong to). There is the right little tight little English huddle, typified by their doyen, C. Aubrey Smith. They drink tea, have garden parties and play cricket. There are the tumbler-tilting Celts of Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien. There is the racy crowd around Bing Crosby, the young blades of whom Mickey Rooney and Jackie Cooper are gleaming Excaliburs...
With so much sweetness and light abounding, the final rapprochement of Jim and Aubrey should be near. The President needs more money for his scholarship plan, and the National Youth Administrator stands at the head of a program which is, in its essentials, like T. S. E. The stage is set for more and mernier Tommy Tuckers...