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...John Mason Brown '23, New York dramatic critic, will deliver a series of eight lectures on "Modern Masters of the Theatre" at the University starting March...
...breeders of show dogs sent many of their prize specimens to Australia, Canada and the U. S. Last week many U. S. dog lovers were helping keep British hounds' noses keen, setters' coats shiny, poodles' hindquarters plucked. In Nashville, Tenn., Spur Oil Co.'s President Mason Houghland has begun regularly to hunt twelve and a half couples from the pack - famed for their hybrid Welsh traits of nose, voice, homeliness - of Master W. W. B. Scott of the Broadway Hunt in the Cotswolds. Five other Scott couples are with the Vic-Mead Hunt in Wilmington...
...screw sloop San Jacinto, fired a shot across the bows of the British Royal Mail packet Trent as she steamed along the Bahama Channel. The Trent hove to and, under the San Jacinto's guns, surrendered to a U. S. boarding party the persons of James Murray Mason and John Slidell, commissioners on their way to represent the Confederacy in Great Britain and France, respectively...
...give the South. Abraham Lincoln kept mum, for weeks. Eventually he had Secretary of State Seward discover that, while Captain Wilkes was within international law in arresting the Trent, he went beyond it in removing its passengers without taking the ship and them before a prize court. Messrs. Mason & Slidell were released from jail in Boston, placed on a British man-o'-war which carried them triumphantly abroad. Abuse was heaped high on Lincoln's head by many of his countrymen, but he patiently stuck to his private explanation of the affair: "One war at a time...
...Mason Fernald...