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...truest history is never to be found in such portraits. On the interference of too much scientific knowledge and a too scientific point of view in the fiction of Huxley, M. Maurois is very just. And his analysis and estimate of the work of Katherine Mansfield provide a keen and very welcome appreciation of a writer less widely read than she should...
...commander's reputation as a thoroughly experienced, altogether first-class Navy man," although you do not fully express it. The fact is Vice Admiral Hepburn is known as a first-rate seaman; an indefatigable worker; a profound thinker; a man of keen judgment and a master of his profession, who, by training, experience and professional attainments, is thoroughly fitted to be Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet. May I ask why this stuff about "selling the navy out to the British?" I don't know what his views are on the subject of mobile...
Next day lean, keen Chairman Nye uprose defiantly in the Senate, dismissed the Connally attack as "gutter English," repeated and documented his charge against Wilson and Lansing, cried: "I am wholly unashamed of my course...
Strongest hope of what is conceded to be one of Harvard's strongest teams is Charles G. Hutter, Jr. '38, national ranking 220-yard free style artist. Keen local opposition will also be afforded by Henry K. Fitts '36 and Bernard F. Merriam, 2nd '36 in the dive, and by Graham Cummin '38 and Richard T. Fisher '36 in the back stroke...
...come. As a singer Tenor Johnson was never a rafter-rending vocalist but as an artist he was possessed of unfailing taste and intelligence, a man on friendly terms with all his colleagues, one who out of working hours could detach himself from opera and view it as a keen outsider...