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There a friend of Don Juan's got a cable from Messina, Sicily, signed "Con-de Barcelona" (one of his titles), saying he would be along four days hence. When he arrived, Prendergast found him wearing a sailor's blue dungarees, faded blue canvas sneakers and "for reasons I'll never know, only one sock. I like the man tremendously...
Lodge, who had been a candidate for Governor, decided to try for the Senate instead - but refused to get out and work for it. Said he to a friend before the con vention: "I just can't go out and shake Lodge, people's and hands I'd and like say your 'I'm vote.' It John Davis would be insulting to them. They know who I am." Far from aloof was Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 54, a hulking, aggressive six-term Congressman from Connecticut's agricultural eastern Second District. Seely-Brown...
...Hanfstaengl incident slipped ominously into the past, the Corporation voted to resume Lowell House's Sunday afternoon bell-ringings, and the Debating Council decided to stage a mock trial of Adolph Hitler. A bench of five professors, includling Raphael Demos and Arthur N. Holcombe, heard undergraduates argue pro and con on the German leader and then found him guilty on two out of four charged counts. Charles Feibleman '37 was one of the prosecutors, while two more of his classmates, Thomas H. Quinn '37 and Arthur G. Sullivan '37, supported Chancellor Hitler's defense. Quinn, Sullivan, and company were unable...
...reply of Professors Hoffman and Kissinger (CRIMSON, May 17) is an unseemly performance by normal standards of taste and logic. They say that anyone who has waded through the arguments pro and con would find this protest incredible. They conclude that "there are only two possible explanations" for the manifesto. One is described as the blind, deaf liberalism of the thirties. The other is ignorance born of overwork...
With prefabrication in particular and architecture generally, Nervi stressed, designer must have "considerable gained through direct con- and familiarity with the problems of contraction...