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...prevailingly playful tone. What is weakest is its dialogue, which is too seldom really bright and too often near-neighbor to the gag. Fortunately, a number of lines that were not born witty achieve a certain wit through the adroitness of the cast. Margaret Sullavan, Claude Dauphin, and Robert Preston as the tycoon, lend a certain airy charm, provide a certain steady carbonation...
Paul C. Washburn '57 of Leverett House and Leominster, Mass., will manage the J.V. team next year, while Gregory Leonardos '57 of 4 Matignon Ave., will be in charge of the freshman team. The winner of the freshman competition and numerals was Preston Brown '58 of Holworthy Hall and New York City...
...MIKE W. PRESTON JR. Buena Vista...
...bring forth thin crops of cotton, cowpeas and sweet potatoes. Young George's reading material was his grandfather's collection of the Congressional Record. Recalls George: "The congressional style was ponderous in those days, but I learned to like it." One day George rode into nearby Preston on the back of an elderly mule. The village belle saw the youth, laughed at him, and found herself on the receiving end of one of Walter George's first public speeches. Its peroration: "This mule of mine is a worthy burden-bearer on our farm. He does his work...
...year off to teach grade school), and toyed with the idea of becoming a dentist. But the drill-and-chisel profession lost a recruit when Judge U. V. Whipple, an orator of local renown, failed to show up for a Masonic convention on the Methodist camp grounds in Preston. Someone suggested that 16-year-old Walter George, the best high-school orator in those parts, stand in for the missing speaker. George was willing, spent 30 minutes preparing himself, then delivered a rousing 40-minute oration on the duties of a citizen to the Government, using Robert...