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...spent his summers on university archeological expeditions to Arizona and Utah. Later he investigated Indians and temples in Guatemala and Mexico, wrote a book about it (Tribes and Temples) with Frans Ferdinand Blom. His first novel, Laughing Boy, a Navajo love story, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1929. Long, lank, dark-skinned, dark-haired, with a little mustache over a big mouth, Author La Farge has "low-swinging, gorilla-like arms," has some-times been mistaken by Indians for one of themselves. He is married to Wanden Mathews, lives in Manhattan...
...talent and resource, fashioned scenery out of porch furniture, odds-&-ends. The Almighty supplied the backdrop, a tumbling ocean. Next year the play-acting fad persisted. Mary Vorse turned over a shack on her wharf to the enterprise and someone named Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, a lank, bushy-headed fellow with no money but "a trunkful of plays," contributed to the second bill a one-acter called Bound East For Cardiff. Sick with stage fright, "Gene" O'Neill spoke a few lines as the mate. Lending a particularly happy atmospheric effect, under the feet of an audience...
...Lank Sir John Simon, his lawyer's wig slightly askew with the vehemence of his summation, faced ten men and two women in the jury box at Old Bailey last week. Said...
With the House Plan, Harvard will perpetuate itself, reckoning little of the future. But the fathers have eaten wild grapes and the children's teeth will be set on edge. Why hope to spare the impending day of athletics for all, and the lank limbs that follow in its tread? No, the hope of the world must be in the women. And even that is an much a case of vanity as of hope. It is really about as broad as it is long. One can only sit by, and muse on hippology...
Faculty. An amiable president is Duke's Dr. William Preston Few. Tall, lank, Vandyke-bearded, he waves cheerily to one & all as he strolls about his campus. Once an English professor, he became president of Trinity College in 1910. His campus nickname: "Sis." His fellow townsmen remember that when the children of Benjamin Newton Duke were young?Mary, and "Angy" (Angier), who fell from a yacht tender at Newport in 1923 and was drowned?Dr. Few used to ride with them in their ponycart. Like many another Duke official, he is a Rotarian. A friend of North Carolina's hard...