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When, in 1634, Musician Henry Lawes asked his friend, Pamphleteer and Poet John Milton, to run off some verses for a masque (a quasi dramatization in verse of some allegory) which John Earl of Bridgewater wished to grace some festivities, Milton complied with a "Masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634," long since known as Comus. This masque so casually written to order, printed in 1637 without even the author's name, is one of the loveliest poems written in English and perhaps the best of Milton's minor works. Valued little at printing, its first (1637) edition last week...
...schooner with powerful gasoline engines the track of the clumsy high-pooped vessels of the first Spanish discoverers. Although most of Mexico has greatly progressed, this region of the earliest American civilization is far from well known. For example, few naturalists have been here, and one of our number, Ludlow Griscom, Assistant Curator of Birds at the American Museum of Natural History, expects to get important new data on the ornithology of these parts...
...Word came from Plymouth, Vt., that the county commissioners in that neighborhood have regularly employed snow plows to keep clear the road from Ludlow to that town, so that if the President should decide at any time to visit his father, ill at Plymouth, there would be no chance of the Presidential automobile being ensnowed between the station and the homestead...
...During the visit of his son and daughter-in-law to Plymouth, Colonel Coolidge left them for several hours while he attended a directors' meeting (Ludlow Trust Co.) in nearby Ludlow.. F. H. Robinson, Presidential chauffeur, drove him there and back...
Without further ceremony, the strange figure was whisked off to Ludlow Street Prison to serve a 30-day sentence...