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...Scott Long, Jr., '39, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, Donald M. D. Thurber '40, and Robert E. Wernick...
George L. Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature emeritus. "Kitty," with the white beard as pure as driven snow" to countless Harvard generations, retired at the end of the academic year 1935-36. His English 2 "Shakspere: Six Plays" was one of the most famous courses in the country, and the examination with its long memory question and its 60 to 70 "spot" passages was terror of many finals and mid-years. Professor Kittredge with his spotless beard, and his pearl gray flannel, and his glasses that flew up the lapel to their hanger with never a hitch...
Alert, adaptable Roy Davis has had two separate and successful careers. He got his political start as a page to U. S. Speaker Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, continued it after taking a Ph.B. degree at Brown in 1910 as secretary to the commission in charge of building the Missouri capitol. He married a Missouri girl named Loyce Enloe, and branched out as an educator in 1914 by joining the administrative staff of Stephens, which young President James Madison ("Daddy") Wood was just beginning to develop into a horsey mid-western finishing school (TIME, June 7). Seven years later...
...ushered in a six-week run of opera at the Cincinnati Zoo. Busy Fausto Cleva was again conducting. Manager Oscar Hild had got hold of such Metropolitan singers as Bruna Castagna, Carlo Morelli, Leon Rothier, Norman Cordon, John Gurney. Friday operas were to be broadcast over the NBC Blue network...
Claiming that there was no immediate danger of a general European war on a large scale, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney professor of History, gave the fourteenth and final lecture Wednesday night in the series sponsored by the "Guardian" and broadcast over WAAB. His topic was "A Gilmpse of Europe...