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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Portland papers printed this old Mahoney story last week, a local reporter named George R. Stearns ungraciously produced a letter which he said Mr. Service had written to him in 1928 in answer to a question: "I have no doubt that the Malamute Saloon was entirely imaginary. At this distant date, however, I have little recollection of the circumstances in which my notorious ballad was perpetrated, and my only regret is that I have been unable to live it down." An old bonanza operator named "Skiff" Mitchell had the last word. Sniffed he: "I knew Sam McGee, the fellow...
...discourage weekend visiting, The High School has classes on Saturday, a holiday each Monday. The school is proud of its athletes and of its scholastic record. Sacred studies and spelling study (until a student's spelling is letter-perfect) are required every day, and Latin is a pre scribed course. Students are carefully ushered in small classes (12 to 15) through a rigid classical curriculum. Last year 35 of the school's 231 boys averaged 90 or better in the school examinations. Episcopal High School scholars make an impressive showing at University of Vir ginia, Princeton, Harvard...
Last week in the September QST was published a letter from Archduke Anton, denying that he had ever been arrested, referring to the Anschluss only as "the great event." Wrote Archduke Anton: "The incorporation of the Austrian amateurs into the D. A. S. D. was accomplished in the friendliest manner and with great consideration towards us. I myself, as ex-president of the Oe. V. S. V., have been intrusted with the reorganization of the ex-Oe hams and have been named 'Landes Verbandsführer der Donaulande' that is to say: 'Leader of the association...
Repeated in letter after letter, his pessimism often seems querulous, disdainful, frequently degenerating to an unpleasant pose. But his last letters, written during the War, when his old friends were dead and he was growing blind, are as sharp as anything he wrote. "I am in a new society and a new world which is more wild and madder by far than the old one . . . and the only difference is that I terribly miss your father's conversation and his dry champagne. . . . We ordinary people in Washington are no longer permitted to have it. The world is improved...
Lying round unanswered in Virginia Woolf's desk as the book opens are three letters requesting the gift of a sum of money. Being an intelligent woman who must make her own living, she can contribute only a guinea (about $5) to each. First guinea goes to rebuild a women's college, is accompanied by a long letter containing her views on education. If the college is to be rebuilt on the old lines, she says, her guinea might as well go for matches to burn it down. She would like it to be a "poor college," with...