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...learned English on New York City streets. He also acquired a sardonic, down-to-earth way of looking at things. Consequently he became the rarest type of reformer, coupling a taxi driver's view of human nature with his idealism. Muñoz Marin studied at Georgetown University, wrote for the Baltimore Sun, The Nation and Henry Louis Mencken's old Smart Set magazine, sold articles on Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters to South American papers. He married Muna Lee, distinguished poetess, speaker at Pan-American conferences, contributor to The New Yorker, onetime book reviewer...
Henri Focillon, French art historian, has been appointed research fellow in residence at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and collection, at Georgetown, Washington, D. C., effective as of December 1, 1940. Professor Focillon was formerly professor of Medieval Art at the universities of Paris and Lyon, formerly director of Lyon Museum and formerly professor of The Fine Arts at Yale University. The Dumbarton Oaks Library and collection was recently conveyed to Harvard by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...
...Miami, with 30-odd bands tootling to beat the cars (but kept from radio listeners lest they hear, illegally, an ASCAP tune-see p. 57), Mississippi State beat Georgetown, 14-10-7, in the Orange Bowl...
...Boston's Fenway Park, a Boston College team, just as big and fast as Minnesota's but without Minnesota's big-time competition, handed a hardy Georgetown outfit its first defeat in three years. Score...
...sports Editor of the Globe Harvard and Brown next Saturday won't draw more than 20,000 people to the Harvard Stadium. Meanwhile Boston College and Georgetown will be turning away thousands after filling the 35,000 seats in Fenway Park. Why couldn't the Harvard Brown game be shifted to Providence, where it would draw just as many people as it will in Cambridge, and then let Harvard rent the Stadium to B, C for the twenty-five per cent which the Eagles pay to Tom Yawkey? I can't see why Harvard would mind picking up this money...