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...Helen H. Gilbert '36, chairman of the Overseers' Visiting Committee on the Harvard-Radcliffe Relationship, admits that the house all sophomores in the Yard is "the weakest link of the whole proposal." To me, this is the epitome of understatement. As the South House Committee wrote in its letter of April 16th to Mrs. Gilbert, "the present house system integrates sophomores in the only meaningful sense; it places them in full social contact with students of other classes." The "special efforts which Dean Pipkin envisions as necessary if all sophomores were to live in the Yard are not now required...
...fair balance between necessary admiration and necessary candor. But Thurber's first wife Althea, a campus beauty at Ohio State during his years there, appears as an unpleasant caricature-by no coincidence closely resembling her ex-husband's caricature of the engulfing Thurber Woman. Second Wife Helen Thurber, who shared his life through his years of dimming eyesight and blindness (and who did the authorizing) is treated with warmth. Clearly she deserves it, but the disparity between the two portraits nevertheless smacks of the dreary side-taking that follows any suburban divorce...
...secret passage but precious pentimento. Still on the walls, beneath 40 years of papering, was the doodling of Humorist James Thurber, who had lived in the house in the 1930s. There is "no question" that the art work is that of the former New Yorker writer and cartoonist. Says Helen Thurber, the humorist's widow: "He always did drawings on people's walls...
...house stirred below. 'Grandpa, get your teeth from the water glass!' He waited a decent interval. 'Grandma and Great Grandma, fry hot cakes!' The warm scent of fried batter rose in the drafty hall ... 'Street where all the Old People live, wake up! Miss Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh, Miss Bentley! Cough, get up, take pills, move around! ... The sun began to rise. He folded his arms and smiled a magician's smile. Yes, sir, he thought, everyone jumps, everyone runs when I yell. It'll be a fine season...
...Helen E. Jones, President Society for Animal Rights, Inc. New York City