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...Maison Moderne, only to see it burn to the ground without insurance. On her first day as a switchboard operator, "she nearly electrocuted herself and was home in time for lunch." But a job selling roller skates at Macy's pays off. She meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, "the richest man under 40 south of Washington, D.C." She visits her husband's ancestral plantation, Peckerwood, meets his evil-tempered old mother, and trails a fox hunt in her hus band's Duesenberg. "I just hope I won't be sick when they kill that...
Ever since their founding in the 17th century by George Fox, Quakers throughout the world have been acting individually and together on their concerns, particularly in the cause of peace. This week six U.S. Quakers, led by Clarence E. Pickett. onetime secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, are on a good-will visit to Russia. The first group of U.S. Quakers to visit Russia in 25 years, they will stay through June, hope to establish themselves in a small town to observe Russian life and explain the U.S. to the Russians...
...material is individually impressive, Pickett claims, but adds, "we have a long way to go to be a team." His progress towards a team was indicated by the Yardlings' narrow victory over Williams, 6 to 4, on Saturday. It was the first conquest of a comparable opponent...
Backing this first squad, Pickett has a nearly equal second team which draws experience from Dean, Governor Dummer, Lawerence, Middlesex, and Park School. The line between first and second team in quite thin, as evidenced by the almost continual shifting of the lineup in search of workable combinations...
...further cause of shifting has been probation, which has claimed three, and minor injuries which have benched three of Pickett's strong players...