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...surprisingly common ground with a majority of his students, he graduated college at the age of 24, and has two years as counsellor for Veterans behind him. After leaving his Indiana high school, Bender worked at various jobs on the New York Central, including section hand and caller of crews for departing trains. For two years he went to Goshen College; then followed a stint as a grade-school teacher, before his arrival at Harvard...
...slaps, and the result is tops. Clumping about in a Northwoods that would make a lumberman's mouth water, Bonge and the bears paw one another sufficiently to reach anybody's funnybone. Scenes of bears winding through a rough and tumble square dance to the yells of a hillbilly caller, and slapping their sweethearts against a background of valentines and fir trees, are all bright-eyed Disney...
...mean looking fellow, and obviously a fraud," was the impression of William T. Gardiner '14 last night. Detective Edward Glennon of the municipal force, detailed to the case, felt sure that the furtive caller must be wanted on some charge...
...cook, housekeeper, butler and chauffeur-returned after long absence to his villa at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, found the second story pretty much a war ruin. He set himself a double deadline for April, hoped by then to have the place repaired and a book finished. A caller found him huddled by the fireplace, repairing a cold with hot grog. The book, said Maugham, would be "the last book of my life ... a romance . . ." and he meant not to dally. "I feel that when a man reaches my age [73 next month] and he wants to write...
...Manhattan's Memorial Hospital last week, a visitor dropped in on the patient in Room 941. They had met only once before, in 1944, but recognized each other on sight. The patient, a writer, had whimsically described his caller then as "a large and most distinguished looking figure, in beautifully tailored, soft white flannels." That time the visitor had not really been looking for him. This time, when he left, Death took Alfred Damon Runyon, 66, with...