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...handsomest scenes-an orange sun rising over the peaks of the Forbidden City, midnight pyrotechnics as the Imperial arsenal blows up, the gates of the great Tartar Wall being stormed by Boxers in scarlet turbans-are almost as good as the evocative paintings by Water-colorist Dong Kingman, which open and close the picture. It was doubtless ghastly to wait 55 days at Peking until a troop of international reinforcements arrived, and the moviegoer who goes through the whole siege in two hours and 30 minutes comes out feeling lucky...
...Provost Kingman Brewster, Jr. will serve as head of Yale until a new president is appointed, the Yale Corporation announced today. Brewster, who has been administrating the university during Griswold's illness, is considered here to be a likely candidate to succeed the late president...
From his undergraduate days, Mr. Stewart chiefly remembers the awesome approach of World War II and the controversy over the question of United States entry. The Yale Daily News, under a series of chairmen including Kingman Brewster, now dean of the Yale faculty, had taken an isolationist position. At the time when the controversy was greatest, Stewart was writing frequently for the News editorial page, and defending it in public. When the United States finally did enter the war, Stewart wrote a series of editorials suggesting ways in which the university could effectively mobilize for wartime service. Several...
...five-point memorandum to Powell, Yale Provost Kingman Brewster, Jr. outlined what the limits and prerogatives of the campus police were...
...helicopter dropped out of the skies and deposited the President of the U.S. at Glen Ora, the 400-acre 19th century estate that he has rented as an off-duty retreat. For the most part, the local gentry have responded graciously to the newest invasion ("My God," said Mrs. Kingman Douglass, the former Adele Astaire, "shouldn't we be proud?''). And yet, with motorcades of the Sunday curious beginning to appear on winter's traces, with newsmen swarming around the Red Fox bar, and with Secret Service men staked out disconcertingly in the woodlands...