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James Chace's "Rebecca and the Child" is a short narrative piece, told without dialog. Its static form is made up for by Chace's evocative description and understanding control of the central character. Slightly similar in theme, "Sweet Forever" by Nathaniel LaMar is more successful as a story. LaMar mixes dialogue with description to give a forceful picture of the barren life of a Southern girl and her fitful reaching for love...
Also named were Ronald P. Noonan of Somerville; Francis James O'Neil of Hartford, Conn. and Leverett; Thomas G. Vickery of Gibsonburg, Ohio and Adams; and Ralph Nathaniel Wharton of Brookline and Kirkland House...
Others must have noticed Eliot too, for he was named to the Board of Overseers, and then as the 22nd (if Headmaster Nathaniel Eaton is considered first) president of Harvard, succeeding Thomas Hill...
John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, had refused a post on Eisenhower's Board of Economic Advisors, it was learned last night...
...left by five childless members of a wealthy Windsor family named Loomis, who wanted to found a place for students of all races and religions-"that some good may come to posterity from the harvest, poor though it may be, of our lives." Under the first headmaster, Nathaniel Batchelder, the good came quickly. He boosted enrollments from 67 to 320, built a $1,500,000 campus, saw his endowment grow to over $3,000,000, Over the years, Loomis began to get a goodly share of scions-the sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lee Higginson, Gerard Swope and Arthur...