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Last fortnight the U. S. Cowley Fathers got a new black-cassocked, shovel-hatted leader. Rev. Spence Burton, Superior General of the Society since 1924, had resigned to accept the suffragan bishopric of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Elected to succeed him was Rev. Granville Mercer Williams, handsome onetime metallurgical engineer. Last week Father Williams resigned a rectorship which he and his assistant Cowley Fathers had made noteworthy for nine years: St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan...
...Burton Rascoe of Newsweek recently described Lewis' book as "a study of adolescence and the tragicomic effort of a fine and sensitive youngster to escape from his virginity...
Wright moved East, wrote books and criticism, grew a beard, affected a monocle. He went to work for The Smart Set, a sort of pretentious pulp, became its editor and transformed it into what Critic Burton Rascoe called "the most memorable, the most audacious, the best edited, and the best remembered of any magazine ever published on this continent...
...HARRY R. BURTON Assistant Advertising Agent The Nevada-California Electric Corp. El Centro, Calif...
...Wednesday the team leaves for Saint Marguerite, Quebec, to take part in the four-day Eastern Intercollegiate Championships. Captain Hinton, Harry W. Hollmeyer '40, Karl Porges '41, and Joseph B. Thomas will compete in the slalom and downhill races and Lindley J. Burton '42, Alfred W. Elpper '42, Captain Hinton, and Richard F. Whittemore '40 are entered in the cross country and jumping...