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Corporal Henry Finch of Roslindale took the CRIMSON staff car through rows of sentries who kept vandals from the devastated areas to the sand banks where some of the Harvard men were on guard. "We are shifted all around," said Seargent Geoffrey W. Lewis '34, former tutor and assistant dean, "sometimes we're on a highway, sometimes in a cranberry...
...year-old heroine, played to the age limit by Ethel Barrymore. A wealthy, imperious, chops-licking war horse, Gran Whiteoak is surrounded by an obsequious tribe worrying over who will inherit her money. Neither her fuddy-duddy children nor her horsy grandchildren are prepared to see it go to Finch, the family neurotic (Stephen Haggard), and they kick up quite a rumpus when it does...
...absence, agreed to have the value of the claims adjudicated by a special "conciliator" instead of by a condemnation commission. They capitulated when Chairman Morgan, who asserted that the claims represented a bald attempt to "defraud" the Government, got Secretary Ickes to refuse the loan of Director John W. Finch of the U. S. Bureau of Mines as conciliator, insisted on a condemnation commission. When last week, nearly three months after the start of hearings during which witnesses for the Berry interests presented evidence by which the value of the leases could be estimated variously between...
...nature is Angler Heilner's province. He has worked for the American Museum of Natural History; indeed it was while investigating a new finch, a rail and a wren for them that he discovered for sportsmen the tarpon of Cuba, in the Encantado (Enchanted) River. His fishing lexicon is shot richly through with biological side glances. It is interesting to know that the jutla (arboreal rat) of Cuba is that island's only native mammal, discovered by Columbus; that the weakfish which spawn in Peconic Bay do so without issue, some cause aborting all their efforts north...
...over Germany and in Austria, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands. She became the best known physical culturist south of Sweden. Eventually she returned to the U. S. and. though her vogue has been quieter here, her system of functional exercises is being used at eminently respectable schools like Finch (Manhattan J, Greenwich Academy, Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill (Greenfield. Mass.), Laurel (Cleveland), Ogontz (Ogontz, Pa.) and at Yale. Her main U. S. school is a large, sunny room filled with full-length mirrors, at No. 36 West 59th St.; Manhattan, where last week five important businessmen and 25 young women who hope...