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...Eliot team, taking the affirmative, is led by John H. Finley '25, assistant professor of Classics, and includes Archie B. Roosevelt, Jr. '40, and Donald H. Davidson '39. The negative side is composed of Dean of Records Reginald H. Phelps, associate of Dudley Hall, Lloyd G. Butterfield '40 and Morris Yarosh '41. This is the second time this year that Eliot has debated, having lost its first match to Winthrop. The Commuter team is debating for the first time...
...President Roosevelt joined by radio in dedicating a Will Rogers memorial museum and statue (by Jo Davidson) at Claremore, Okla. Excerpt: "When he [Rogers] wanted people to laugh out loud he used the methods of pure fun. And when he wanted to make a point for the good of all mankind, he used the kind of gentle irony that left no scars." Eddie Cantor said: "Any time you gave him a biscuit, he'd want to pay you back with a barrel of flour...
...Border States would go if war came. They vacillated, compromised, stood on one political foot and then the other, kept the country on pins and needles till the last moment. The literary inheritors of this Border-State vacillation are the Southern regionalists: Poets Allen Tate. John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson. Novelists Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). John Peale Bishop, et al., from the divided States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. Subtle, urbane and inexhaustibly energetic, they straddle the question of the South's inevitable industrialization, preach a Southern culture modeled on pre-Civil War agrarianism...
...Palmer Davidson of Montclair, N. J., tired of traffic noises outside his house, complained to Mayor William E. Speers that he had taken to sleeping with clamshells clamped over his ears...
Humprey G. Hutchinson -- Miss Anne Davidson, Wellesley...