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...English took the start of the was much easier than we did," was the comment yesterday of Ray S. Cline, '39 recently appointed proctor in Weld Hall who studied at Balliol College, Oxford last year...
...Cline, who eluded the State Department by flying to Canada and booking passage on a Dutch boat the day before war broke out, was the only American holding a fellowship to reach England. His ship, loaded with contraband, heard an S. O. S. every day of the trip and was stopped by the British Navy for inspection the day of the Athenia disaster. Steering a zig-zag course across the Atlantic, the Dutch boat almost met disaster by following a Belgian ship in the English Channel. The Belgian ship, a half hour ahead on the same course, struck a mine...
John Dorman '36, of New York City, first year graduate student and former teacher at Loomis School, has been appointed to Matthews Hall, and Ray F. Cline '39, of Terre Hauto, Ind., who studied last year at Balliol College, Oxford, has been appointed to Weld Hall...
Robert Haydock Jr. '39, of Ipswich, Mass., first year law student and former track captain, was named to the house at 44-46 Mt. Auburn St., while Howard F. Cline '39, of Indianapolis, Ind., winner of a Sheldon Fellowship last year, was appointed to the new Farlow House at 24 Quincy...
Both books begin in the last of the great World Wars. In The Twenty-Fifth Hour mankind dies out doggedly from plagues brought on by bacteriological war fare. Author Best writes with a kind of exaggerated pulp-paper toughness. His de cline of the west is slower, crueler, more realistic, less snagged with philosophical, religious and artistic asides than Poet Noyes's. A buzzard broods over his all-but-dead planet, whose curse is that there is still some doomed life left on it. Only the women are halfway happy as barbarians. Explains Author Best's hard-boiled...