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Engaged. Barbara Gushing, beauteous sister of the former Mrs. James Roosevelt; and Harvardman Stanley Grafton Mortimer...
...because the Harvardman cannot turn a phrase with the artistry of a G.B.S., but because he is simply unable to say what he means at all, have there been complaints. Last spring the Committee on the Use of English advised automatic rejection by all departments of papers and examinations failing to reach a minimum standard of clear and lucid prose. Hence the new emphasis on "practical" writing--on English not as an artistic end but as a medium of common expression...
...many a Harvardman the Pore is only a name. But the blindfolded initiates - among whom were Thomas Gardiner, son of the Pore's grand marshal, and R. Fulton Cutting 2nd - knew that they had entered one of the world's most exclusive clubs. Here had fraternized some of the bluest U. S. bloods - nine Adamses, seven Lowells, eleven Cabots. If the Lowells speak only to the Cabots and the Cabots only to God, the Pore is where they hold their...
...intense, an art director of Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall. Last week a Karson mural was unveiled in the lobby of Manhattan's Rialto, the Music Hall of its day (1916), but for the last four years a Manhattan movie house specializing in horror pictures. (Harvardman Arthur L. Mayer, the Rialto's owner, calls himself "The Merchant of Menace...
Meantime from the mimeographs of the Department of Commerce issued a statement signed by Secretary Harry, and written under the auspices of his new Bureau of Industrial Economics. Its No. 1 sparkplug: 37-year-old Harvardman Dick Gilbert. It said (Mr. Hanes notwithstanding...