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...result was the magazine's "Revolt of the Masses" number roundly attacking the House Plan. The attack was so strong that Lampy's graduate trustees threatened to resign unless the editors personally apologized to Edward S. Harkness, donor of the Houses. But President Alan R. Blackburn, speaking for the Bow St. aviary, made it clear he planned no retraction...
...Clark, James de Normandie, Arthur E. French, Jr., David Guarnaccia, James L. Reid, Richard A. Stout, John Tudor, and William S. Young-man, Jr. were nominated for marshals; Hulburd Johnston and Alan R Sweezy for treasurer; John K. Fairbank, Lawrence T. Grimm, and Norman Winer for orator; Alan R. Blackburn, Peter J. W. Bove and James H. Sachs for Ivy Orator; Robeson Bailey and Peter I. Dunne for poet; Philip Hichborn and Chauncey D. Stillman for odist; and James R. Carter, Richard S. Holden, and Philip H. Rhinelander for choristers...
...aesthetic pages, the Class of 1929 chose athletes for the three top posts. French, Guarnaccia, and Clark were elected marshals. For other positions CRIMSON president Sweezy was named permanent treasurer, and Advocate president Bailey, class poet. Grimm, president of the Debating Union, was appointed class orator, while Lampoon leader Blackburn took the Ivy Orator post. Holden was chorister, and Stillman, another Advocate editor, was elected odist...
...over Tempelhof airdrome and knew he was near his journey's end. Last week, perched on the edge of his chair, blond, stringy Mieczyslaw told his story. And the father he had run so many risks to find? A call to England located him: a textile worker in Blackburn, Lancashire. The boy smiled a small, trembling smile. He had made...
Modern man worries so much about his ability to measure up to the challenges of his environment that he often, literally, worries himself sick. So believes Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, chancellor of Sydney University and grand old (78) man of Australian medicine, who sees patients when other doctors have not been able to decide what ails them. Most alarming, Physician Blackburn feels, is the fact that for the first time in history, man may have reached the point where he admits defeat in the face of great odds...