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...There was a time when Britain was in the exporting end of the oyster trade. Julius Caesar took English oysters with him back to Rome, where Historian Gaius Sallust sourly commented: "The poor Britons, there, is some good in them after all; they produce an oyster...
Absolved of obscenity: Poets Gaius Valerius Catullus and Vincent McHugh; by a grand jury in Manhattan. The jury threw out a suit brought last spring by famed Dirt Chaser John S. Sumner, who had objected to a phallic "Suite from Catullus" in Adaptei McHugh's book, The Blue Hen's Chickens, Sumner, who caid he was "not at all surprised," was now operating his battered old Society for the Suppression of Vice under a slightly more delicate name: the Society to Maintain Public Decency...
Other members of the Executive Committee chosen Tuesday evening include Lloyd M. Anderson '44, Col. William A. Barron, Jr. '14, Gaius W. Merwin, Jr. '45, Bolles, former coach of the crew, now with the Navy, were unanimously elected members of the club, although neither is a Harvard graduate...
...York and Stoughton; and Martin Singer, of New York and Lionel. Aiding Circulation Marvin Sleisinger, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Walker House, will be Don W. Crary, of Dallas City, Illinois and Thayer; Nathan S. Davis Jr., of Winnetka, Illinois and Hollis; David Grinnell, of Needham and Holworthy; and Gaius Merwin, of Scarsdale, New York and Mower...
Tackles--Ben M. Burr, Theodore Chadwick, William Fisher, John Fyffe, Lauriat Lane, David E. Moore, Gaius W. Merwin, Jr., Nicholas G. Pitarys, Hardy F. Perry, James H. Robinson, Wentworth D. Shepard, Alexander Wheeler and William J. Ward...