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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carrying off the individual crown at the Easterns, Junior Bob Graves received a just reward for three seasons of the most consistent play ever known to Harvard golf. As captain of his Freshman team, he went through the year undefeated. Last year he graduated to the No. 6 spot on the varsity and had another unblemished record. This season he started at No. 4, but was soon moved up to No. 2, where the efforts of all of his opponents produced only one halved match. Graves took all the others, but he had to work for some of them. Graves...
Corot and Daumier (October 1930), including the first loans ever made by the Louvre and Berlin's National Gallery to a U. S. museum...
Considered by his friends to be the most lively and happy-go-lucky of his rigid grandfather's grandsons, Nelson has shared from childhood the artistic interests of his mother ("one of the most extraordinary persons I've ever met"). At Dartmouth, besides playing two years on the soccer team, he edited a magazine called The Five Arts. In 1930, he married hearty, charming Mary Todhunter Clark of Philadelphia, took her honeymooning around the world and settled in a big remodeled farmhouse near the golf course at Pocantico Hills. Since then they have had five children: Rodman...
...still bulky survey of the last ten years. Into its 977 pages the Beards with evident relish have packed the joltiest jars of the great skid from the boom of 1928 to the gloom of 1939, suggest some new rules for safer driving if the car of state ever climbs back on the road...
...Beard published his Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. Probably the dullest book of sensational history ever written, it infuriated conservative historians and editors by documenting the shocking lucidity with which the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in their own economic interest. Newspapers screamed that Beard was a "hyena." Ex-President Taft (whom Beard calls his heaviest critic-"by tonnage") damned it in a special speech. High schools banned the book; public libraries put it on the restricted shelf. Nicholas Murray Butler sputtered that his derelict professor of politics was aping "the crude, immoral and unhistorical teaching of Karl Marx." Charles...