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...Classics Prize for his proficiency in the combination Greek and Latin languages examination, it was announced yesterday. The winner of the $100 presented for ability in the Latin test alone is Richard A. Webster of Loomis. Honorable mention went to Geoffrey Bush, of Phillips Academy, Andover, and Stephen B. Baxter, of St. Paul's School, for the joint competition, and to George J. Kandzie, of Hingham High School, and William Gifford, of Plainfield (New Jersey) High School, for the single examination award...
...David W. Baxter...
Died. Newton Booth Tarkington, 76, best-selling literary Gentleman from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with...
...some Britons felt that spring-cleaning had gone too far. When Laborite T. C. Skeffington-Lodge quoted statements that 40% of Britain's dewy, young (under 20) brides were pregnant on their wedding day, the House of Commons could only shake its collective fatherly head. Conservative Novelist Beverley Baxter doubted the shocking estimate, warned: "If this is published without considerable repudiation, it will shock the people of the Dominions...
...Baxter Springs Moore...