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Captain Rooks was commander of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston, lost following the battle of Java. He was listed as missing in action, and the award of the nation's highest war decoration was made by President Roosevelt...
...award of 27 academic prizes totalling $5,155 to 42 people was announced today by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as follows...
...worst season in 20 years," wrote Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times; George Jean Nathan couldn't remember as bad a one in 35. Neither the Pulitzer Committee nor the New York Drama Critics' Circle bothered to make its annual award. Variety announced that of 66 new shows only six were hits. No Broadway season was ever buried with fewer flowers or less oratory than...
Gladys Schmitt was born in Pittsburgh in 1909, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where she began a close study of the texts of Proust and Mann. The Gates of Aulis, which took her five years to write, is the winner of the biennial Dial Press Award "for an outstanding novel that concerns itself realistically with the problems of adjustment which face young men and women of America today." Last month Gladys Schmitt went back to Pittsburgh to spend a year in research, preparatory to writing a novel about King David...
Closing the year came the award of honorary degrees to the country's fight for freedom, and the graduation of another Harvard class, trained to step into its place in a nation at war.ELLIOTT PERKINS '23 took over the chairmanship of the important war service information Bureau, central office of student inquiries about opportunities for usefulness in the war effort. He replaced A. James Casner, now a major in the Army intelligence, last June...