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...DeVoto began last month as editor of one of America's least read magazines, the Saturday Review of Literature. The Saturday Review of Literature is the kind of magazine you find on public library tables and under the green-shaded gas lamps of the aged but literate spinsters of Beacon Hill. It is ever so slightly intellectual, and ever so slightly classy...
...Arnold S. 17 215 6.5 Brookline High Gardiner, Tudor 18 185 6. Groton Hallett, Moses. D. 18 181 6.1 Milton Academy Hallowell Phillips 18 180 6.1 Milton Academy Luther, Charles H. 18 165 5.11 Blake Healey, Thomas V. 19 195 6.2 Worcester Academy Hollmeyer, Harry W. 17 175 6.2 Beacon Jacobs, Stephen W. 17 185 6. Woodmere Academy Myers, John W. Jr. 19 170 6.1 Noble & Greenough Reed, Philip L. Jr. 18 185 6.2 Andover Rubin, Edward 18 150 5.11 Los Angeles High Soule, Augustus W. Jr. 17 182 6.2 Brookline High Wood, Hamilton H. 18 187 6.3 Noble & Greenough...
...Cheered announcements that 4,500 miles of main British motor roads are being "nationalized" by dynamic Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha. Today British motor cars do not stop dead, as they are supposed to do, before every "Belisha Beacon" at which pedestrians theoretically have the right-of-way to cross (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), but Mr. Hore-Belisha is capitalizing on the publicity his beacons won to carry out vital reforms. Shocking is the fact that two-thirds of Britain's boasted "Great North Road" from London to Scotland is too narrow for two lanes of traffic. Hundreds...
...first election as probate judge in 1920. 2) Adoption by a potent political father, David W. Mulvane, late boss of Kansas. In 1924 Hamilton,' with Mulvane's backing, was elected to the Kansas Legislature, served until 1928, finished as its Speaker. Far from a flaming beacon of liberalism was the Mulvane machine. In the Kansas House, Hamilton helped defeat the Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution...
...Boston reporter was inveigled out to Cambridge to interview the committeeman. This gentleman proved to be obliging and presented him with a dazzling galaxy of names which represented the delegation of fair charmers which Beacon Hill was sending to the dance. Having exhausted his memory, and trailing off, as he thought, to a weak conclusion, he was beginning to chew the curds of disappointment when lo!, he had a flash of inspiration...