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...Canadian village bumpkin who all his life has outsmarted city slickers, William Maxwell Aitken "The Beaver" skyrocketed from selling sewing machines, cement and insurance, in which he had little faith (even today self-reliant Beaverbrook carries no life or personal property insurance), until at 31 he dominated a Canadian cement company and liquidated his dominion holdings for $5,000,000 in order to go to the mother country and have...
...Robert G. Axtel Catherine Lawrence, Wellesley Winslow B. Ayer Patricia Miller, Smith Edward R. Bacon Adell Voss, Swampscott Grover C. Bacon Jay Prince, Cambridge Edwin T. Baker Mary Favorite, Brimmer-May School William H. Baker Edith Alexander, Newton Stephen P. Baldwin Joy Kidder, Concord Benjamin N. Barksdale Janet Harwood, Beaver Richard S. Barrows Helen Francis, Wellesley George Bartlett Ann Folsom, Hingham Robert S. Benshimol Patricia Dadmon, Arlington Bernard R. Benson Sybil Hart, Packer Institute Robert G. Bigelow Marian Prentiss, Columbus, Ohio Carroll Binder, Jr. Carol Jones, Wellesley Nathaniel L. Blanchard Lee Burnett, Southborough Charles M. Bliss Margaret Soule, Wellesley Richard...
Under the leadership of Malcolm Holmes '28, the orchestra will play at the Harvard Club of Richmond on Saturday evening, March 30; at William and Mary, March 31; at Sweet Briar, April 3; at Arlington Hall Junior College, April 4; and at Beaver College in Philadelphia, April...
...Pierian's program will include works by both contemporary and classical composers. At Sweet Briar and Beaver joint concerts with the college glee clubs will be held...
...carefully. Few girls not on that ancestral list ever get on the dance floor. You are "cut in" quickly; but it soon becomes as convenience. There is little to talk about. You begin on her school, but after you have learned that she goes to Miss May's, Beaver or Winsor, conversation is over. In the fall you might ask her about field hockey, in the winter about the school play. She has probably taken a weekend to New York; but she can tell you nothing about the Nine O'clock...