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...skillful sailing of Roger Wilcox '42, the Harvard dinghy team made the best showing of the year, when it ended up fourth in the final standing out of sixteen colleges competing for the Morss Bowl in the Basin Saturday and Sunday. Princeton took top honors with an aggregate total of 362 points...
...gave itself a 25th birthday party. To its swank, Lescaze-designed Manhattan skyscraper office it invited representatives of that amorphous, shifting, elusive, body of opinion that is known as U. S. liberalism, displayed for them a 94-page supplement called The Promise of American Life. Present were amiable Robert Morss Lovett, Government-Secretary of the Virgin Islands, a New Republic editor for 18 years; Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, the rival (74-year-old) liberal intellectual journal that looked exactly like the New Republic to outsiders, very different to liberal intellectuals. Present also were contributors, constant readers, free traders...
...From Chile over the Andes to Argentina the President last week shifted Ambassador Norman Armour, 51, famed as the State Department's smoothest French-speaker, whose wife is a Russian princess. To be Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands he named Robert Morss Lovett, 68, distinguished left-wing belles-lettrist, Emeritus Professor of English of the University of Chicago, persistent civil libertarian...
Courtesy Repaid Long a familiar figure at Manhattan's Roxy Theatre was tattered old Mrs. Edna Morss Allin Elliot. Whenever a new picture was being shown she went to the first showing. Each time she sat in the same front-row seat, decked out in quaint, shabby costumes with leg-o'-mutton sleeves and feather boas. Ten years ago, when Assistant Manager William J. Reilly first noticed her regular attendance, he arranged to have her admitted early to watch the rehearsals of the stage show...
...Childes lecture announcement. The meeting on the Common is at twelve o'clock, and will be preceded by an indoor meeting in the New Lecture Hall to be addressed by Professor Schumann and Dean Hanford; this is the eleven o'clock meeting, under purely Harvard auspices. Again, Professor Robert Morss Lovett is not even primarily a "pro-labor sympathizer," as you describe him, in your attempt to make the greater Boston Peace Strike look like a mass labor meeting for the C. I. O. A Professor of English at the University of Chicago, co-author of a widely used history...