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EVERY able-bodied man eligible for military service within the next thirty years owes it to himself, to his country, and to the shreds and patches of Western civilization to weigh carefully the problems upon which Hector Lazo throws a searchlight in "Taps." The book tells the story of a young, ardent, Hun-damning warrior, who, forced as a Secret Service man to pose as a conscientious objector, is finally persuaded by the force of his own assumed arguments and by the pleading of a wounded friend to become in all seriousness the determined kind of pacifist which...

Author: By J. ST. J., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 2/6/1935 | See Source »

...adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked calmly up the gangplank of the Queen of Bermuda, caused a kidnapping scare in Hamilton before he gave himself up. When the boat docked in Manhattan, Stowaway Wainwright explained: "I wanted to go to school with American kids like myself. The captain was a grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

From the close of this until midnight there will be dancing to the music of Sammy Liner's orchestra in Lowell House and Charles Hector's Club Touraine band in Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Day Program Today Fills Period From Noon to Midnight | 6/20/1934 | See Source »

...Meyer Davis Copley Plaza Orchestra under the direction of Bill Boyle has been engaged for the Senior Spread on Monday evening, June 18, at Lowell House. On Wednesday, June 20, Sammy Liner's band will play during the evening at Lowell House, and the Club Touraine orchestra under Charles Hector will play at Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLANS ANNOUNCED BY CLASS DAY COMMITTEE | 5/17/1934 | See Source »

Emil J. Ganem '37, John H. Gilbert '36, Constock Glaser '35, Charles F. Goodale '34, Robert S. Goodyear '36, Na, thanael B. Groton, Jr. '37, Thomas G. Gunn '37, Bayard H. Hale '37, Aldon M. Haupt '37, Louis J. Hector '37, Edwin A. Hills '37, Hugh F. Hinckley '37, John Homans, Jr. '37, Franklin C. Humbert '37, Arthur R. Humphreys 1G, Edward H. H. Jusen '37, Sheldon Z. Kaplan II, Davis G. Kirby 2GB, John B. Little '36, Munro L. Lyeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHTY-TWO MEN ARE ELECTED TO GLEE CLUB AT BUSINESS MEETING | 5/16/1934 | See Source »

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