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Though it was high time for frost, temperatures stood at August levels from the Great Lakes to the Eastern seaboard. Manhattan small fry celebrated the hottest Halloween on record (81°) by donning masks-and going naked on the beach (see cut). As the hot spell wore on, thermometers registered highs of 84 in Washington, 82 in Philadelphia, 81 in Boston, 77 in Chicago, 85 in Memphis. Midwestern farmers mopped their foreheads and cursed the humidity which was delaying the corn harvest. Mississippians sighed and put off their hog killing. Thousands of city folk got out their lawn mowers...
...Robert Frost, poet, philosopher, and professor, will give a reading of his own poems with commentary on November 14 at 4:30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund. The lecture is open to the public...
Pulitzer prize winner Frost has appeared on frequent occasions at Harvard in the past twenty years, holding a Ralph Walde Emerson fellowship here from 1939 to 1941. His last book, Come In, edited by Louis Untermeyer appeared...
...staged a conference on "The Heritage of the English-Speaking Peoples and Their Responsibility." Long and lovingly planned by Kenyon's President Gordon Keith Chalmers, the conference attracted such varied bigwigs as Senator Robert A. Taft, British Socialist Harold Laski, Cambridge University's Denis Brogan, Poet Robert Frost...
...approve (rarely to reject) the decisions of the Corporation, which is the actual governing body. A sample list of Overseers past and present covers a lot of territory-from Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall and San Francisco's Mayor Roger Lapham to Columnist Walter Lippmann and Poet Robert Frost...