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...Augustus Thorndike, II FOR CHORISTER Charles P. Berger, Jr. D. Donald Peddie John W. Dorr, Jr. Sherwood Rollins, Jr. Philip Kadison Gerald D. Roscoe Franklin J. Tyler FOR ORATOR Stanley O. Beren James D. Justice Hubert P. Earle John M. London Lewis B. Harder James J. Pattee FOR ODIST Bancroft G. Davis Charles C. Smith Richard D. Edwards Charles H. Stern Nelson R. Gidding Philip Thayer SECOND ELECTION BALLOT FOR POET William Abrahams Malcolm S. Mackenzie Watson B. Dickerman Rufus Mathewson Firman A. Houghton Howard Nemerov Thomas Lacey, II Robert B. Nichols Westmore Willcox, III FOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...streamlined film version" of Louisa May Alcott's novel about life at the Plumfield Farm Boarding School in the late 19th Century, the Polly -androus story would hardly be recognized by Louisa May. Most intrusive revision: the addition of a pair of slick sharpers called Major Burdle (George Bancroft) and Willie the Fox (Jack Oakie). A period piece as heavy as a Victorian sideboard, the picture is lit up, as by an occasional gas jet, by Oakie's robust mugging...
Knollenberg experienced no unusual difficulties until 1775. In that year Washington took the revolutionary limelight, began to write letters and make comments on which classic U. S. historians have relied for their record and interpretation of much Revolutionary history. To historians like John Fiske, George Bancroft, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Paul Leicester Ford, Washington's word was almost sacrosanct. Reluctantly, Historian Knollenberg concluded that it wasn't. Yet others went on believing Washington. To correct ("in some measure") this prejudice, Knollenberg wrote Washington and the Revolution...
...includes a small percentage of small growers in the State who were scared by desperate, frequently reckless labor tactics and were genuinely hurt by growing labor costs. But the important membership is a large percentage of the large growers. They are the hierarchy and inner circle, gentlemen landinternational FARMER BANCROFT His enemies comforted...
...fierce fancy to him, persuaded Captain Corry to sell him for $1,200. Since then, First Attempt -renamed Little Squire-has been the darling of U. S. horse shows, the household pet of his four successive owners: Rider Danny Shea (trainer for the stable of the late Publisher Hugh Bancroft), Copperman Robert Guggenheim, Boston Clothier William J. Kennedy. Schoolboy Francis Cravath Gibbs (13-year-old grandson of the late Lawyer Paul Cravath), who paid...