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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...
...feet by such business catchers as the first dieselized streamliner. And he made the "Q" famous as a training school for railroaders-including the Rock Island's John Farrington, Santa Fe's Fred Gurley, the Great Northern's Frank Gavin...
Members of the committee appointed by Fischelis are: Donald L. Bornstein '50, William H. Claflin '50, Paul J. Douglass '50, Jerome P. Gavin '50, Leonard C. Gordon '51, David J. Hanson '52. Bruce Harriman '50, John T. Hazel, Jr. '51, Frederic D. Houghteling '50, Robert P. Hyde '51, Richard W. Kimball...
...meeting, Gavin also announced approval by a Council committee of an American Field Service offer to give a Harvard man a free trip to and from Europe and $100 out of an estimated $200 expenses...