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...have remarked before on the strenuous pastimes of A. Lawrence Lowell, President emeritus. Many Harvard boys pride themselves on their prowess during Marblehead Race week, on their skill in trimming a lib, or on their strength on the main sheet, leaving their Socratic mentors in the Yard to find them new questions for the winter bluebook season. But they do not leave Dr. Lowell behind. Harvard's honored ex-president spent three days of July cruising from Mr. Desert Island in Maine, to Marlon on the Cape, and had so much animal spirits left when he arrived there that...
...Edmund Heines of Breslau and Lieutenant Schultze-both directly named in the London "mock trial." Busy-buzzing U. S. Liberal Arthur Garfield Hays, one of the leading lights of the London trial, hung around Leipzig for days. Defense lawyers devoutly prayed that he go back to his American Civil Lib erties Union before he got them all into trouble. Judge Bünger finally granted him permission to submit testimony later and provide sworn statements from witnesses afraid to appear. From every point of view it was unfortunate that the defendants at the trial were not more articulate. Only...
GALSWORTHY (John) A Commentary, Good ex-lib. copy...
...last week.* Several radio stations claimed credit for the hookup. It was due to the enterprise of Newark's WOR alone. At the appointed time St. Gandhi refused to be hustled from his dates and milk; his flustered hostess, Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley House, was forced to ad lib for many minutes. At length the Mahatma approached the microphone, prayed for a few moments silently. Then millions of U. S. listeners heard his first words: "Do I have to speak into this thing...
...final showdown words did not count. Decisive was the Liberal-Laborite ("Lib-Lab") Pact made just before Parliament recessed between Scot MacDonald and Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, frequently rumored since to have broken down...