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Professor Morison has been a close student of both American and European politics and history. He was attached to the Russian division of the American Peace Commission at Paris in 1919, and was later the American delegate on that commission. He is the author of several well-known historical and biographical works on the Balkans, Massachusetts, and the American Revolution. Among these are, "The Life of Harrison Gray Otis," "History of the Constitution of Massachusetts". "The Eastern Baltie in New Europe", "Maritime History of Massachusetts", "Prologue to American History," and "Sources and Documents on the American Revolution...
Professor Tinker is in the English Department at Yale, and is an authority on Johnson and Boswell. He is the author of a book on the subject, entitled "The Young Boswell...
...Author. Newton D. Baker, 54, West Virginian by birth, educated at Johns Hopkins, was City Solicitor and Mayor of Cleveland through a stirring municipal upheaval and Secretary of War during the Great War. He is short of stature,slim, dark, shell-spectacled. His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Saturday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes...
Engaged. Arthur Cheney Train, 50, famed novelist, author of The Needle's Eye, His Children's Children, etc.; to Mrs. Helen Coster Gerard, former sister-in-law of James W. Gerard, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany...
...Author. "Klabund" is the pen name of Alfred Henschke, a German author still in his early 30's. He has spent his few years in studying at the universities of Berlin, Munich, Lausanne. Besides, he is a great traveler?spends only his winters in Berlin and the rest of the year roaming the world. The spirit of the man who wrote this strange book about Peter the Great is best expressed in his own words: "I must go on fighting with a hot blade the sounding battles within...