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BRIGHTON-Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton-Houghton Mifflin...
Sharing none of Thackeray's prejudices, Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton, in their new history of Brighton, find George IV, while not exactly an ornament to Britain, at least no unmixed Victorian monster. His streak of family insanity "had softened down to a curious, harmless and most effective eccentricity." He was frequently drunk, but no more so than most English aristocrats of that period. His delusions, that he had defeated many butchers and bakers in fistfights, that he had commanded at many a battle, including Waterloo, were merely symptoms of the same madness that had made his old father...
...sowed his architectural wild oats at a time when the power of monarchs was everywhere being curbed, and did not live long enough to experience regrets for their cost. Although Sitwell and Barton write long and authoritatively on the beauties of the romantic architecture he sponsored, a taint of snobbishness and affectation is discernible in their accounts. Despite Brighton and its patron's love of art, Thackeray was probably more nearly right about George IV than Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton...
Readers of Airwoman know that the Betsey Barton, who edits a monthly page called "Cloud Club," is the pretty, 16-year-old daughter of gladsome Adman Bruce Barton. Last summer an automobile accident bedded Daughter Betsey in her Manhattan home with a broken back. Propped up in bed with pillows, spunky Editor Barton gathers chit-chat from correspondents, types it out with her father's breeziness, more flippancy. Well enough last week to be wheeled out to a cinema, she said: "I want to try my darnedest to get more people, especially young women, interested in aviation...
Science will be strongly represented as Waldemar Lindgren, William Barton Rogers Professor of Economic Geology at M.I.T., and Charles Schuchert, Yale paleontologist, will also be awarded degrees by President Conant. Walter Prentice Bowers, a practising home physician of Clinton, will be awarded a Master of Arts degree in recognition of his service to the inhabitants of Worcester County...