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...MARIAN B.GALPIN...
...following Radcliffe juniors have been elected to Phi Betta Kappa: Marian B. Carlson of South House and Paris, France; Elizabeth J. Coe of Lowell House and Larchmont, N.Y.; Catherine A. Guyton of Quincy House and Jackson, Miss.; Helen M. Hershkoff of Eliot House and Rockaway Park, N.Y.; Yeou-Cheng Marie-Therese Ma of North House and New York City; Margaret V. Sacks of Lowell House and Washington, D.C.; Laura Schafer of Adams House and New Haven, Conn.; and Sharon Shurts of Dunster House and Waterford, Conn...
...writes, if the Omniscient Novelist is Richard Jones, like this: "Chandler was a curious mixture of ageing philanderer and eternal bachelor; he pursued girls (in an avuncular way) the more ardently if they gave signs of rejecting him; he was exactly the man to half-pursue a girl like Marian; and Marian was exactly the girl to be half-pursued by such a man. In their own way, they had got along very well. ..." A short course in Chandler and Marian, to be supplemented with further explication as often as the author thinks necessary...
...author's theme is suitably antique: Will she or won't she? Marian is a spoiled, listless rich girl who has wandered home to Wales after a brief try at art school in London. Chandler, the man-about-London, is half-besotted with her. and Nichol, a student, is wholly so. Marian is indifferent and unassailable, the princess in the tower. Her petulance is enough to move the story forward, thereby allowing Jones to work at his real craft, which is observing people...
Another guest had more to muse on than most: Contralto Marian Anderson. In 1939, she had been refused permission by the Daughters of the American Revolution to sing in Constitution Hall because she is black. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the D.A.R., and Anderson sang instead on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Last week, Miss Anderson sat in the presidential...