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First prize ($15,000) for 70-foot mosquitoes went to the Manhattan firm of Sparkman & Stephens, whose Partner Olin Stephens in 1931 skippered the 52-foot racing yawl Dorade across the Atlantic in 17 days, 2 hours 14 minutes, later was a codesigner of Harold Vanderbilt's Cup-winning...
FRÉMONT-Allan Nevins-Appleton-Century ($5).
"If the world's a stage," says Elizabeth Bowen, "there must be some wonderful parts." The tragedy of John Charles Frémont was not that he could not fill the roles, or that he did not enjoy them; he had all the equipment of a leading actor, better...
The lessons, two or three pages each, are written in simple, popular style. They are a shrewd mixture of interesting fact, mental games and useful information. But The Popular Educator is more than a game or pastime. On its faculty are Harvard, Yale, University of Chicago professors, such famed educators...
Such widespread publicity, its sponsors hope, will bring additional funds to carry on the good work of the MacDowell Colony. Meanwhile, bustling, grey-haired, bright-faced little Marian Nevins MacDowell continues to lecture, to work incessantly in the Colony's interests. Next summer she hopes to be in Peterboro...