Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R. R. RAUSCHER Tacoma, Wash...
...Washington's gilded, gaslight age, the cave dwellers (native Washington society) took over. The last of their queens were wealthy Mrs. John R. McLean, a Virginia lady of formidable presence, and her convivial, raucous daughter-in-law, Evalyn Walsh McLean, who died in 1947. Evalyn wore a diamond (the Hope) as big as a tiger's eye, and called men impartially "darlin' boy." At her crowded parties (at the old and new "Friendship"), men had to bring their brains with them; Evalyn delighted in pairing mortal enemies at dinner. Said an old friend, admiringly: "Evalyn had spite...
...newspaper clippings from his pocket. "Show these to the boys in the office when you get to Caracas," he said. That evening, when the plane landed at La Guaira airport, a delegation of brown-faced, unsmiling Venezuelan army officers met Calhoun. The reason: since December, exiled Venezuelan President Rómulo Gallegos had been an intermittent guest in the cozy, twelve-room villa of Father-in-law Stevens on Miami's Star Island...
...questionnaire was written by Charles R. Brynteson '50, co-chairman of the Council's Student Welfare Committee, with the cooperation of Charles F. Mosteller, associate professor of Mathematical Statistics. When it was released, Brynteson said that Dean Bender had approved it, and had indicated that its results would be used in determining University policy...
Students who won positions were William F. Gleason '50, of Kirkland House and Chicago, Frank F.E.A. Sander '49 of Adams House and Brookline, Keith R. Kunhardt '50, of Winthrop House and Francestown, N.H., and Horbert P. Gleason '50, of Kirkland House and Cohasset...