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George Leonard Berry got off to a slow start in life. Tennessee-born son of a Civil War captain, he was orphaned at 7, knocked about as odd-job boy and printer's helper until he was 21, never got to college. He was a Spanish War private, a World War major of engineers, helped organize the American Legion. At 53 he is not only the Southeast's biggest farmer (30,000 acres) but also, since 1907, president of the International Pressmen and Assistants Union and founder-owner of the nation's biggest color label-printing plant...
...program, which will be conducted by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, is as follows: Praestat hoc noblis from "Ecce jam noctis" Chadwick Diffusa est gratia Nanine Four Christmas Carols Christ Is Born of Maiden Fair Gauntlett This Is the Truth Sent from Above Vaughan-Williams Le Miracle de Saint Nicolas French Carol Soloists: Karl E. Schevill '37 David P. McAllester '38 Sing We Noel Tutti venite armati Gastoldi Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Sea Chanties arr by Colin McPhee Stormalong Solist: John L. Bishop '37 What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor? Soloist: Benjamin C. Riggs '37 Der Gang zum Liebchen...
...name, it was revealed when he recently married Olive White, his manager, is Lancelot Ross . . . and that's probably what he wrote on his registration blanks at Yale and Columbia . . . Son of a Shakespearean actor, he was born in Seattle . . . and was sent to Taft School in Connecticut for proper eastern bringing up . . . Taft led to Yale and there Lancelot was a track man in '27 against Oxford and Cambridge . . . but being in the Yale Glee Club actually gave him a chance to see oxford and Cambridge...
...charge of criminal syndicalism. A third is Ed Bell, who last week published Fish on the Steeple, a rowdy, hilarious novel that captured the flavor of life in the small hill towns where all the males pack guns and where all strangers are automatically considered revenue agents. Born in Smithville, Tenn. in 1910, Ed Bell worked in a brickyard at 10, has since worked in a rock quarry, on a bridge construction crew, in a grocery store, as a janitor, plasterer, chicken farmer, newspaper reporter. Attending college briefly, he quit after he had been suspended three times for his writings...
...distinguished career, were sole criteria, few critics could object to the choice of Havelock Ellis. Now almost 77, he has been actively writing and editing for 50 years, has practised medicine, translated from Spanish and French, written poetry and fiction, taught school, made a special study of sex psychology. Born in Surrey of a seafaring family, he traveled to Chile at the age of 6, was in charge of a government school in New South Wales by the time he was 19. Deciding that he needed a knowledge of biology in order to understand himself and others, he studied medicine...