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...Board chose another Haverford graduate (1915), born on the campus during President Comfort's senior year: Felix Muskett Morley, Phi Beta Kappa, Rhodes Scholar, foreign correspondent, author and able editorial writer of the Washington Post. His father, Dr. Frank Morley, taught mathematics at Haverford and Johns Hopkins. His two brothers, Author Christopher (Kitty Foyle) and Book Publisher Frank, were also Rhodes Scholars-an alltime U. S. record for one family...
Tall, portly, auburn-haired, Editor Morley has the ruddy complexion, the tweedy cut of a friendly English squire. A colossal after-dinner wit and classical punster, he plays bad tennis, smokes good pipes violently. On singing terms with a vast repertory of German drinking songs, he is reputedly the most difficult man in Washington...
Album of Shakespearean Song (Mordecai Bauman, baritone, Ernst Victor Wolff, harpsichordist; Columbia: 6 sides). Rather lugubriously sung anthology of Shakespeare ditties, most of whose settings (by Thomas Arne) were written in Georgian times, but some of which (It was a Lover and His Lass by Thomas Morley) may actually have been sung in Shakespeare's own productions...
...good book, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town. Oh foul slander! Has he never heard of Mr. Paul's Concert Pitch, the best damn musical novel I ever read? As an author myself I don't like to see this - Poet Christopher Darlington Morley is not even eligible for membership.-ED. slipping of your department editors into the wrong pews. We can take what you dish out to us in our proper place-but don't let your Music people write so coyly of books, or your Art people write so well on crime...
...Poet Christopher Darlington Morley is not even eligible for membership...