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Taking time out from his multifarious activities in Washington to return to his former haunts, James Phinney Baxter III, President of Williams and erstwhile Master of Adams House, spoke last night to the members of Adams at their Tenth Anniversary Dinner...
President Baxter told how more than a decade ago, he and six other potential House Masters drew lots from the pocket of Professor' Chester Noyes Greenough for the headship of each House, "and I was particularly lucky to get Adams...
Apparently the plans for the House were about to go up in smoke, President Baxter continued, because he was told one day that the whole House was on fire. Racing to the scene, he was somewhat consoled by the fact that the smoke was only pouring out of part of Westmorely, and by the fact that at least half of the House could be saved. He was considerably relieved, however, to find that the huge clouds of smoke were merely emanating from one oil-saturated and odoriferous pair of overalls...
President Conant, who shared speaking honors with President Baxter, compared the tranquil scene at Adams's informal dinner with a similar dinner at Trinity College, in Cambridge, England. There the banquet was practically disrupted by an air-raid alarm, but the intrepid students remained in their places until the "immediate danger" signal should come-which it never...
Married. Poet-Critic William Rose Benet, 55, onetime husband of the late Poet Elinor Wylie; and Marjorie Flack, 43, children's writer and illustrator; he, for the fourth time; in Newtown, Conn. His marriage to Actress Lora Baxter ended in divorce...