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Willard Deming Lewis '35, of Augusta, Georgia, Herbert Leopold Brown, II, 1G, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Roy Canon Clements 2GB, of Lubbock, Texas, and Thomas Huston Macbride 1G, of Seattle, Washington, have won places on the list of 1935 Rhodes Scholars-elect which the Rhodes trustees released yesterday...
...Oxford Lewis will continue his work in Physics in which he is at present concentrating and in which he has maintained an active interest since his arrival at Harvard three years ago from Richmond Academy and Augusta Junior College, both schools of his native city. Dean's List student, tennis and squash player, he had previously considered entering radio research work with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company after graduation from Harvard...
Somewhere near the Capitol at Frankfort, Olympia, Augusta, Helena, Jefferson City, Salem, Pierre, Tallahassee or any other State capital is generally to be found a low, musty, old-fashioned hotel with a stuffed elk's head and plenty of spittoons in the lobby. If the Legislature is in session rooms there will be at a premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions...
...year ago last week marked the Manhattan opening of the play about a poor-white-trash family listlessly starving to death in the country back of Augusta, Ga. It took some weeks before the theatregoing public began to perceive in Tobacco Road not a picture of stupid depravity, but an uproarious comedy of destruction. Henry Hull won critical salutes from all sides with his rickety impersonation of Jeeter. After he had played 30 weeks in the part, Universal snatched him off to Hollywood. Then James Barton, a song-&-dance man making his first legitimate appearance, took over...
...flavor of Cambridge life. But then one creates new clothes of tradition and atmosphere, for no university that gives its professor of rhetoric the right to graze a cow in its courts need envy the anachronisms of Europe, and the sense that one's dinner companion may hail from Augusta, or Miami, or Oshkosh, not to mention Gunsight or Broken Bow or Eagle Butte, gives one spatial contacts that are as cherished as the chronological ones of Europe...