Word: gavin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gavin: Secretary of House Committee Chmn. of House Committee, Prize, House Captain of Combined Activities Drive, Administrative Secretary of the Salzburg Seminar, American Committee...
...following were selected by the nominating committee last week: David M. Abbott, William L. Alden, Edward F. Burke, Charles R. Brynteson, James R. Carman, Albert B. Carter, Jr., Daniel A. Cronin, William Curwen, Wilbur M. Davis, Charles W. Detjen, Jerome Gavin, Alfred M. Goodloe, Jr., Bruce Harriman, Frederick D. Houghteling, Howard E. Houston, Amory Houghton, Jr., Frank S. Jones, Edward P. Linehan, David Poskanzer, Walter Raushenbush, John G. Simon, Thomas C. Simons, and Jonathan M. Spivak...
David M. Abbot, William L. Alden, Edward F. Burke, Charles R. Brynteson, James R. Carman, Albert B. Carter, Jr., William H. Claflin, Daniel A. Cronin, William L. Curwen, Charles W. Detjon, Wilbur M. Davis, Jerome P. Gavin, Alfred M. Goodloe, Jr., Bruce Harriman, Frederick D. Houghteling, Amory Houghton, Jr., Howard E. Houston, Frank S. Jones, Edward P. Lenahan, David C. Poskanzer, Walter B. Raushenbush, John G. Simon, Thomas C. Simons, and Jonathan M. Spivak...
Faulkner's detective-hero, Gavin Stevens, is a small-town Mississippi lawyer with gritty common sense and a shrewd insight into poor-white psychology that enables him to unravel his county's crimes. Up to a point he is both likeable and credible-a Yoknapatawpha County Sherlock Holmes-but Faulkner runs him to the ground by overloading him with unnecessary and undemonstrated learning ("a Harvard graduate . . . who could discuss Einstein with college professors") and with too much folksy moralizing...
...Announcement of the resignation of Jerome P. Gavin '50 from his position as head of the Combined Charities Drive, and the unanimous election of George J. Feeny '50 as new chairman with Jerome B. Spunt '50 as new treasurer...