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...Idaho-born Ezra Pound, who has been in Italy since 1924 and broadcasts for the Fascists, and these Berlin propagandists: Chicago-born Douglas Chandler, Iowan Fred Kaltenbach, Georgian Jane Anderson, Pennsylvanian Constance Drexel...
Convinced that college social as well as intellectual life had "disintegrated," Lowell conceived Harvard's system of "Houses," modeled after Oxford's colleges. In 1932, with a gift of $13,000,000 from Yaleman Edward Stephen Harkness,* Harvard finished its group of seven redbrick, white-spired Georgian social nuclei, each with its own library, tutors and dining-hall...
Emory S. ("Red") Wages Jr., the pudgy genial Georgian who regaled the squadron's junior officers with tales of his amours, went out on a search one day, tapped out a last message about low gas, and went in. Oran ("Fig") Newton Jr., who had animal nicknames for most of the boys, such as Al Dog for Wright and Red Bird for Wages, was shot out of a dive by A.A. That was all: two pilots. Four enlisted men are missing...
Into the army went David Mdivani, ex-Georgian prince, ex-husband of Mae Murray, ex-brother-in-law of Barbara Hutton, ex-brother-in-law of Pola Negri...
...stand not only to protect Grozny's oil, but also to guard the main routes into the heart of the Caucasus and the richer Baku oilfields. Southwest of Grozny lies industrial Ordzhonikidze, terminus of the only two highways scaling the lofty range near its center. Both highways, the Georgian and Ossetian military roads, are tortuous, treacherous routes that mount 10,000 feet through gorges giving every advantage to the defender...