Word: cumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant nostalgia in those who like to look back, this is by no means a historical novel of the Roosevelt years. Nor is it a typical story of "Metropolitan Americanus, Middle Class, White Collar." Amy may be unremarkable and typical enough, but Husband Lyle is a Harvard A.B. (cum laude), son of a millionaire father who committed suicide in the '29 crash, and of a dipsomaniac mother with blue-dyed hair. By leaning heavily on these and other glamorous characters, Author Sherman spares himself the much more difficult task of making ordinary people interesting...
Arthémise Goertz, who wrote this Literary Guild selection for July, is fortyish and kindly, and she has had her quota of happiness, excitement and tragedy. Her New Orleans childhood was in the "German tradition of discipline and duty." She graduated from Tulane University magna cum laude, took with her a Phi Beta Kappa key and her Spanish professor as a husband. Later she lived in Mexico, wrote a book about it (South of the Border), then went to Japan on a scholarship. The day after Pearl Harbor the Japs made her a civilian war prisoner. She came back...
...Henry Morris Russell, 69, grey, wispy-haired professor of astronomy. One of the world's leaders in his field, he developed a way of measuring movement of stars by photography, established giant and dwarf star groups, was one of two Princeton men to win doctorates in physics summa cum laude. Professor Russell once predicted that, in about a billion years, the earth's atmospheric oxygen will be used up, and in a few billion more "the universe will be thoroughly uninteresting...
Undergraduate recipients of the Fellowship were: David G. Gill '46, a graduate magna cum laude in economics; Henry B. Helson '47, a graduate summa cum laude in mathematics; and Truman O. Woodruff '46, a graduate summa cum laude in physics...
...Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske, 3rd, Scholarship for study at the University of Cambridge, England, was awarded to Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier 2G, a graduate cum laude in geological science...