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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawrence and Aldous Huxley are disposed of as writers who did too much reading; T. S. Eliot as an author of ultra-chichi -vers-de-société; W. H. Auden as a slick eclectic who "perhaps never wrote an original line." If there were an award for that book which does the least to bootlick or otherwise seduce the reader and to cheapen its own contents, The Long Week End would be an admirable candidate...
...accounting of Habsburg family funds by his hard-up fifth cousin, Archduke Leopold. >> "Death Valley" Scotty was ordered to turn over 22½% of his mining claims to his old friend and banker, Julian Gerard; but the judge doubted any gold would be found, and did not award Gerard any interest in his protégé's three-million-dollar desert castle. >> Historian Harry Elmer Barnes was dropped as a lecturer by Eastern Washington College of Education (Cheney, Wash.) because "during his early years Dr. Barnes was associated with certain movements commonly called radical." >> Alabama's Governor...
...Francisco, the District Court of Appeals upheld an award of $8,000 to the widow of a Christian Scientist who died of injuries after an automobile accident. The defense claimed that, because he dismissed his doctor, the victim died of negligence. The Court's decision: an injured person may choose any kind of care he wants...
...Boston Globs of yesterday appeared the following news item: A group of 50 students and alumni gathered in Emerson Hall Harvard Yard yesterday afternoon protest the award of an honorary degree tomorrow at the Harvard Commend cement to Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States. The meeting was sponsored by Profession Frederick Merk, Francis O, Matthiessen, and Wendell, Furry of the Harvard Faculty, and Raymond Dennett graduate secretary of P.B.H...
...CRIMSON would do nice the favor of correcting, The meeting which I was asked to sponsor and agreed to sponsor was one which was to have as its topic of discussion, "The Future of Labor in the U.S." The meeting was not held, as stated above, "to protest the award of an honorary degree," for any remarks which were made by speakers at this meeting regarding Lord Halifax the sponsors of the meeting cannot, of course, be responsible, I wish to add that Professor Furry and Mr. Raymond Dennett, the only other sponsors whom I have been able to reach...