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...deValpine, George Worth Fowler Jr., John Sells Graettinger, John Peasise Graves, John Francis Harvey, James Sloane Higgins, Kenneth Day Johanson, Eugene Parr Johnson, Paul Sigurd Johrde, Walter Scott Long, Jr., Donald Frank McDonald, Thomas Herbert Malim, David Martin, Robert Glenn Martin, Arthur Taylor von Mehren, Robert Earl Middleton, Frank Gustavus Miller, Maynard Malcolm Miller, Duane Keith Ocheltree, Harold Clarence Passer, Dick S. Payne, Donald MacKonzie Pitcairn, Ralph Hubert Potter, James Allan Rafferty, Thomas Ben Ragland, Jr., Andrew Eliot Rice, Charles Cost Royer. Richard Honderson Russell...
Carl Bellman was an amiable, unpractical tosspot who spent most of his life in government sinecures, under the patronage of art-loving, fun-loving King Gustavus III. When the King was murdered. Bellman lost his last job, was put in debtors' prison, got out just in time for a last party before he died. Bellman played the lute, consciously or unconsciously drew upon Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti for melodies. He seldom wrote a song down, let his friends transcribe, collect and publish part of his output. The "Last of the Troubadours" sang of tavern life, of trips to the country...
Among the honorary pall-bearers will be: President Lowell, Maurice J. Tobin, Mayor of Boston, Leverett Saltonstall, Governor-elect, James Ford, associate professor of Social Ethics, Edward K. Rand, Pope Professor of Latin, and Gustavus B. Maynadier, assistant professor of English emeritus...
Among the speakers listed for future meetings are Gustavus J. Esselen, Jr., and Gregory P. Baxter '96, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry...
Little work, much fun was planned for the 800 delegates of 60 countries attending this latest four-day congress. From Germany came 200 delegates, from Rumania 30, from Rightist Spain 20. The U. S. was represented-unofficially-by five delegates, chief of whom was former Track Athlete Gustavus Town Kirby, treasurer of the last U. S. Olympic committee, for 35 years chairman of the advisory Intercollegiate Athletic Association, president of the First World Congress for Recreation. Largely responsible for a big amusement program was the athletic, sporty Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace who is also president of the After-Work...