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...Elizabethan library where Samuel Seabury plotted Tammany's destruction some three years ago, last week swart little Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia faced a New York Supreme Court Justice reading him an oath of office. "I do so solemnly swear,'' snapped Mr. LaGuardia, thereupon turning and kissing the plain earnest woman who was once his secretary, is now his wife. "Now we have a Mayor of New York!" exclaimed delighted Inquisitor Seabury, who had whipped together the Fusion Party which turned bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien out of office, turned Tammany upside down. To celebrate this deed...
...arrest of plump "Baron" Oscar Merrill Hartzell, who collected nearly $1,300,000 in 13 years from gullible Mid-western aspirants to the non-existent $22,000,000,000 estate of Sir Francis Drake, famed Elizabethan mariner (TIME. Jan. 23, Feb. 27): conviction on a charge of using the mails to defraud, sentence of ten years in jail, fine of $2.000; in Sioux City, Iowa...
...groups include formal dances, generally twice annually; tea dances, costume dances, -- shipwreck dances and poverty balls; House dinners on such occasions as Christmas and President Lowell's birthday, with skits following; plays, such as "The Shoemaker's Holiday," produced by the student and tutor members of the Eliot Elizabethan Club; economic societies; "Coffee Pot" discussion groups; musical societies; singing groups; and other discussion groups. For the most part these activities, which have arisen generally from the initiative of students, sometimes from that of tutors, have been very successful. Such activities will take care of themselves. Each House acquires...
Besides lecturing in History 1, Professor Merriman is Master of Eliot House, which he rules like one of the benevolent feudal barons of whom he lectures as memorably. Never did he seem more in his element than in a recent play of the Eliot House Elizabethan Club, marching through Eliot's enormous dining hall as King Henry...
Matthiessen, a Yale graduate, has occupied the position of head tutor during the two years of Eliot House's existence. He was active in forming the Eliot House Elizabethan Club and, with Theodore Spencer, instructor in English, coached and took part in the play, "A Shoemaker's Holiday," which the club put on this year. Professor Matthiessen's resignation as head tutor was brought about by his desire to spend all his time on his other work. He will continue as a tutor in History and Literature in Eliot House...