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...were glad to learn Miss Sitwell is capable of roaring on to a battlefield and hissing by post. Such vocal athletics no doubt enhance the status of a poetess who has progressed beyond the White Cliffs of Dover to the point where she writes of the "pink cheeks of young country girls in unintelligible floral arrays...
Sixteen seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last night. They are Hugh Amory, of Dover and Kirkland, English; Richard J. Barnet 1L, of Brookline and Eliot, Slavic languages; Leo Bersani, of Katonah, N.Y. and Leverett, Romance languages; Donald L. Blackmer, of Andover and Lowell. History and Literature; Gaynor F. Bradish, of Schenectady, N.Y. and Dunster, English; and Melvin W. Brown, of Conotton. Ohio and Lowell, Chemistry...
This, of course, brought Miss Edith Sitwell herself roaring on to the battlefield. "I did not write 'Emily-colored hands,' a hideous phrase," she informed the Observer, "I wrote Emily-colored primulas, which to anyone who has progressed in poetry-reading beyond the White Cliffs of Dover calls to mind the pink cheeks of young country girls...
...last week Florence and her father decided that there was no point in waiting any longer. In a soupy fog, with the tides unfavorable and the waves white-capped, Florence helped smear herself with chill-cutting grease, adjusted her suction-cupped goggles and waded into the black water off Dover. Three hours out, she was a very sick girl. Said father Chadwick: "She was vomiting every third stroke." Pills did not help, but finally one of her trainers spotted the jinx: fumes from a leaky gasoline line of an accompanying motorboat. Florence recovered as soon as the boat drew away...
...boys on the beach raced cheering to the spot. Soon tiny Sangatte's deputy mayor arrived and, in the confusion of tongues, thought he was welcoming Denmark's Elna Andersen, another Channel swimmer, who had not even started. But that night, back in the Dover hotel, everyone knew that Florence had become the first of her sex to make it the hard way. Gazing out the same window at the sea, Swimmer Chadwick announced: "I'm feeling fine...