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...Perkins is busying herself around her lumber yard when Gladys Pendleton calls to say that her mother Matilda fell, or was pushed, while arguing about a divorce with her husband, pompous Bank President Augustus Pendleton. Augustus goes off to spend the evening with his gentle lady friend, Widow Amy McKenzie, the woman Matilda wants to name in the divorce suit. The teaser: Will gentle Amy marry pompous Augustus...
Providing a year of study in a French university, the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship has been awarded to Isaac Thomas, Jr., of Pottstown, Penna., and Lowell House. A music major, Thomas is a member of the Music Club and has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
Radio station WHRB has elected the following to its spring term executive board: Tom N. Billings '52, president; Richard S. Rosenbloom '54, program director: Edward A. Saxe '54, business manager: Augustus J. Fabens '53, chief engineer: and Eliot M. Sterling '53, personnel manager...
Forty years ago, when crusty Augustus John first saw the works of young Pablo Picasso, he was "at once struck by his unusual gifts." Since then, John, 73, has become Britain's leading academic portraitist; Picasso, 70, the most brilliant and controversial figure in modern art. This week, writing in London's Sunday Times, Augustus John brought his original impression up to date...
...explanation for Tom Murphy's change of heart was apparently the advice of his fellow jurists, among them, the cousins Learned and Augustus Hand of the U.S. court of appeals. They felt that federal judges should not accept administrative jobs without resigning from the bench. More important, Murphy had found out that he would not get the tools he needed for a thorough stable-cleaning; he was to get no powers to subpoena witnesses, or to cite them for contempt if they proved balky. The job had been offered as a pail-and-broom detail, but what Tom Murphy...