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...saving the life of an injured Army pilot who had crashed his plane into Long Island Sound, Lucien H. Warner Jr. '45, of Mystic, Connecticut and Weld Hall, has become Harvard's latest war hero...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Saves Army Pilot In Choppy Long Island Sea | 1/28/1942 | See Source »

...game brawl. In the first scene the huge stevedore, Crown, with his blood on fire by liquor and the caresses of Bess, his woman, kills a man and then flees from the white man's justice leaving Bess to seek refuge with Porgy. Then comes one of the most mystic scenes ever to be put on the stage--the "saucer burial" of the dead man. While the Negroes chant and moan melancholy airs in the darkened room, they slowly give the widow enough money to save her husband's body from the medical students and give it proper burial. Soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...mystic of recent ascent, Friedkin follows the Floating Power theory of crystal-balling, sitting on eight cushions placed on top of an easy chair in order to shield himself from mundane vibrations. The pillows put his chin about on the level of the top of a bookcase, and there, resting on a piece of black velvet, sits the instrument itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Yoga Emerges From Maze, Still Unhypnotized | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Died. Dmitri Merejkowski, 76, Russian historical novelist, biographer (The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci), Christian mystic; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 22, 1941 | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...mystic yearning of the garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Builder of Big Ships | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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