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First Day. In a big, maroon, convertible sedan with the top down and the bullet-proof windows up, the King & Queen, having greeted Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and notables at the dockside, were whisked up the winding road from Wolfe's Cove to the old city over a circuitous route past battlefields, through cobblestoned alleys and over bedecked streets to the Provincial House of Parliament. Over the route Quebec's 140,000 inhabitants stretched thinly but politely, regarding the King curiously, but whispering of the Queen: "Qu'elle est charmante?" "Qu'elle est chic...
Sponsored by Archibald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection, authors Booth Tarkington and Thornton Wilder, and Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale, a new Ivy-League magazine has been announced for publication in October of next year. The magazine, entitled "Harpy," will contain work of students from Harvard, Princeton and Yale...
Professor William Lyon Phelps has been especially emphatic in his approval, saying "It is a wonder to me that nothing of this sort has been started before. There is a certain unity of sentiment among the three colleges that cannot be found in any other group of universities in this country...
...eldest (now 62), worked his way through medical school. The two youngest, Bernard and Sidney (now 42 and 45), were put through by their older brothers. Three others, Isadore, Arnold and Theodore, went to work for a hat firm and in 1914 they and the remaining two brothers, Lyon and Henry, set up Portis Brothers Hat Co. They had $23,000 to start with, half borrowed from Dr. Milton, half from, others...
...female legs in the daily news," simplified spelling, contact as a verb, big books ("as depressing as soggy porridge"). His own big book runs to 986 pages, weighs 2⅝ Ib. Now 74, white-haired, deeply tanned, still vigorous, though saddened by the recent death of his wife, William Lyon Phelps is retired from Yale and Scribner's, contributes a column to the Rotarian, picks an annual list of "best books," writes few book reviews. But his influence is by no means extinct. Still one of the most popular of lecturers, he estimates "I'll probably average...