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...BROOK EVANS-Susan Glaspell-Stokes...
Naomi and Joe are forbidden to "keep company," but they meet by the starbright brook, and plan to marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook...
Thinly disguised under the synonym Ottercove, Lord Newspaper-Magnate Beaverbrook appears in Gerhardi's new book, avowedly "pure and unmixed, except for the obvious extravaganza." But Beaver-brook's life has been so rich in extravaganza that the fictitious is not always obvious. Ottercove rides in a Winged Chariot, a comfortable limousine that darts down London streets or rises quietly into the air far above traffic and turmoil. He promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries...
...into a roll at 3,000 feet. The wings crumpled and the fuselage "flew right out of the wings" they said. Calmly they turned off the ignition (to prevent fire in the crash) and jumped out with parachutes. The fuselage came to earth in the stables of the Meadow Brook Club, killing two polo ponies: Gay Boy, used in the International Cup Play last autumn by Malcolm Stevenson, and Anaconda, also prized. Said William Averell Harriman, financier, owner of the two ponies: "They were two of the best polo ponies in the world. I raised them from colts. They were...
Announcement was made last nigh of the Senior who are acting as sponsors for the annual Phillips Brook House Spread which will take place the afternoon of Class Day, June 19, in the quadrangle in the rear of Sought to Hall. The list of names includes A.H. O'Nell '28, W.G. Saltonstall '28, L.M. McTurnan '28, W.N. Bump '28, E.G. Dennis '28, and J.G. Buckley '28. About 400 people will gather in the quadrangle upon the conclusion of the exercises in the Stadium, and the Spread will continue untill 7.30 o'clock. The Phillips Brooks House will proved a convenient...