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...heard about Anna during her own ten-year stay in Siam. She read Anna's books and, in a chance meeting in 1939 in Evanston, Ill., met people who had known Anna. Anna and the King of Siam consists of 391 pages (with neat line drawings by Margaret Ayer) condensed from Anna's own discursive, old-fashioned writing. It is "75 percent fact, and 25 per cent fiction based on fact." Gilbert & Sullivan King. The King of Siam was a character out of Gilbert & Sullivan - except that when he tortured people, they died. When Anna arrived at Bangkok...
Junior Varsity: Stroke, J. P. Chandler '47; 7, D. G. Smyth V-12; 6, D. McCollester '47; 5, R. B. Perkins NROTC; 4, E. Gordy '46; 3, R. W. Locke '47; 2, E. L. Parker V-12; bow, N. R. Ayer '47; Cox, 5, W. Amory NROTC 4, S. D. Moot V-12; 3, H. S. Morgan NROTC; 2. J. M. Conant '47; bow, R. T. Edmunds V-12 cox, R. J. Ward...
Then the Marines joined Colonel Ayer's Army infantrymen, swept up & down the atoll. The U.S. had an atoll from which land-based planes might continue the assault on Truk, only 760 miles away. It also had a new "farthest west" position in the enemy's Central Pacific empire...
...Blue Network, the N. W. Ayer ad agency and Hires Root Beer finally got their war heroes straightened out last week. For three weeks a new Blue show called Heidt Time for Hires (Mon., 7 p.m., E.W.T.) has featured honorably discharged servicemen who aired their war records, said what they would like to work at and where. They were supposed to get job offers before the show ended. They did. The trouble was that at first nobody took pains to investigate the applicants thoroughly...
...Beatrice Ayer Patton, in the midst of the hurly-burly about her husband (see p. 69), published in This Week a short story about a scared soldier. Apropos her husband's difficulties, she. recalled: "I think I'm a good mother, but I can remember all too well punishing my children in the heat of disappointment or shock and wishing later I hadn't. ... He made a mistake-and it can't be undone-I just hope they won't kick him to death while he's down." Clifton Fadiman, in his last month...