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...department especially of this year's Freshman squad should please Dick Harlow, whose tackle problem has been severe since the graduation of Tom Healey. Boston has a wealth of tackles, almost more than he needs. Four of them, Captain Steve Mallett, George Hibbard, Rollo Fisher, and Fred Parson, have been waging a bitter battle for starting posts all year, and all of them are over six two and close to 200 pounds...
...lineups: FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Bridge, le le, Aldrich Hibbard, lt lt, Mallett DeCoster, lg lg, Warburton Mason, c c. Byrnes Blanchard, rg rg, Dorsey Parson, rt rt, Fisher Cummings, re re, Hyde Gleason, qb qb, Geethals Johnson, lhb lhb, O'Donnell Gifford, rhb rhb, Truesdale Cowen, fb fb, Anderson
Most important change in artists is at the University of Iowa, where Grant Wood has long carried a heavy teaching schedule, and loved it. But for an artist who can command $10,000 a canvas (price of Parson Weems' Fable and Sentimental Ballad), teaching at $4,000 a year is a definite sacrifice. Moreover Artist Wood paints slowly, fussing, niggling, spreading glaze after glaze to achieve the hard candylike effect that is his specialty. After a period of financial and marital difficulties (he has been divorced), Grant Wood resolved to take a year off to paint. Last week...
...Presbyterian parson, "the best man I have ever known," wry-faced little John Buchan grew up in the poetry and parsimony of the Scottish border, went to Oxford on Caledonian determination and a shoestring, published his first book (Scholar Gipsies) to help pay his college expenses. He was admitted to the bar, but his life work really began when he was made Private-Secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. From Milner and Kitchener he absorbed an extraordinary philosophy of empire which inspired him to the end of his days. This philosophy, which the later John Buchan...
...right down the U. S. alley. On food: "You can eat yourself sick if you want to, but of course it is very nice to have a parcel of America's noblest produce including perhaps a bottle of rye or bourbon." On parashots: "There we were-ploughman and parson, shepherd and clerk, turning out at night as our forefathers had often done before us, to keep watch and ward over the sleeping hills and fields and homesteads." On war: "A lot of us may be maimed or dead very soon, but that can't be helped...