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...list of modern trinkets for the Harvard man who had everything. A 1908 Rambler Roadster topped the list at $2250.00--perfect for that spin around the park. The vehicle contained all the latest technological advances, including a rumble seat and leather interior. Serious recreation seekers could reach Bermuda in only 45 hours, aboard the new twin screw S. S. Bermudia. And to take home to the family, the 1908 Harvard Yearbook bound in Crimson and lettered in Gold sold for one dollar...
When Katherine Anne first turned to fiction, she believed that stories should feature high-born characters in exotic settings. She was a slow bloomer, but how she hopped about-to Bermuda; Mexico; Paris; Berlin; Salem. Mass.; Washington, D.C.; California. She was 40 when her first collection of short stories, Flowering Judas, was published, establishing her reputation at once...
Most of the entrants, of course, were United States citizens--but there are plenty of others: 38 from Japan. 15 from Bermuda, two from Saudi Arabia and one each from Australia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic...and more...
...Pacific islands and the Americas. Today Britain is part of the 46-nation Commonwealth, a loose political and trade association composed of its old possessions, now completely independent. Britain still claims only a clutch of 13 tiny dependencies, including the Falkland Islands, the British Virgins, Anguilla, St. Helena, Bermuda, Pitcairn Island and the uninhabited British Antarctic Territory. Britain's two most important holdings are Gibraltar, which Spain would like to reclaim, and the free-trade port of Hong Kong...
...punch line. "Even Archie Cox has his off days.") That's Archie Cox--the professor. A traditional crowd favorite is the parading of a few real-life Law School characters across the Pound Hall stage. This year it's Professor David Westall, as a dope-dealing buffoon in Bermuda shorts and sombrero and Dean of Students May Upton, who plays herself and saves Camp So-Sue-Me from villainy. They're both as stiff as boards but incite near pandemonium merely by showing that they too can behave foolishly in public...