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...organized and one of Harvard's active extra-curricular groups the Outing Club has already completed seven trips and is planning at least two more expeditions for each weekend during the rest of the team. With W. Lawrence Minor, Jr. of V-12, Henry U. Grunebaum '47, and Alan Balsam '48, heading it, the club now boasts 25 active members...
Father spent much of his time "enlarging at least twenty separate collections, ranging from duelling pistols to out-of-the-way specimens of trout flies." Most of the Sousa living-room was given over to a truckload of balsam wood, several barrels of paint. Out of these Father planned one day to fashion his own duck decoys. On the dining-room table stood his favorite Christmas present- joint gift of the family-a bullet-loading machine. Father always slept with one to three loaded revolvers under his pillow, plus spare rounds of ammunition. His own room resembled "a merger between...
...question that if Britain fell Canada would present a big defense problem-not only around Quebec that was the key to the North in the days of Wolfe, but northward through the sparsely inhabited, partly explored regions of the Northwest Territories, through Arctic tundra, through forests of spruce, balsam, white pine as wild as was the American frontier, along vast Canadian rivers like the Mackenzie, navigable for 1,825 miles, that flows into the Arctic Ocean. Said the Herald Tribune: "Such a treaty would be the logical and inevitable culmination of an old and precious friendship between two peoples...
Friends, an immediate succour for this, my treasure! Procure me now, obtain me now, fragrant scent, purest balsam, with speed of lightning...
...Ethiopia, announced that Elena would receive this year's Golden Rose. Last Sunday a sheaf of gold blooms in a silver vase was brought into the Pope's apartment, placed upon a candlelit table. Vested in rose garments, Pius XI prayed over the Rose, incensed it, poured balsam and musk into a tiny cup in its centre. The Golden Rose will be presented to Italy's Queen after Easter by Monsignor Borgongini Duca, Papal Nuncio to Italy...