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...patronesses for the event, the last of the 1938 social season until the Jubilee in spring, are: Mrs. Walter B. Canon, Mrs. Henry Chauncey, Mrs. A. Chester Hanford, Mrs. William E. Hocking, Mrs. Arthur N. Holcombe, Mrs. Delmar Leighton, Mrs. Roger B. Merriman, Mrs. James B. Munn, and Miss Rose Sherman...
...required physical exercise for student waiters as "unnecessary, impractical, and unfair," a petition demanding abolition of this was yesterday signed by 30 of the student waiters, about three fourths of the total number. It is planned to obtain all the signatures tomorrow and then present the petition to Dean Leighton...
First boat--Stroke, Meyer; 7, Evans; 6, Bainbridge; 5, Benchley; 4, Scott, P. L.; 3, Scott, R. L.; 2, Hamill; Bow, Leighton; Cox, Valentine. Second boat--Stroke, McClennan; 7, Sargent; 6, Hickox; 5, Browne, S. D.; 4, Horner; 3, Lewis; 2, Ogilby; Bow, Davis; Cox, Gitt. Third boat--Stroke, Bennett; 7, Ware; 6, Lambert; 5, Brown, W. H.; Kernan, R.; 3, Lawrence; 2, Marshall; Bow, Kernan, H. Cox, Boyd...
RIDERS OF THE SKY?Leighton Brewer?Houghton Mifflin...
Such an epic could certainly be written about the airmen of the War. Poet Leighton Brewer has not done it, but he has shown the possibilities. A veteran of the U. S. Air Service in France, Poet Brewer sings a long paean to his old comrades of Tours, Issoudun and the Western Front. Riders of the Sky, "a combination of fact and fiction and legend," brings in many an actual person and event. Some of the characters: "Gil" Winant (now Governor of New Hampshire), Eddie Rickenbacker, the late Quentin Roosevelt, Frank Luke, "Hobey" Baker. Author Brewer's reference to himself...