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...exclusive boating club" ("for it's jolly boating weather") you do a grave injustice to my quondam mentor and still esteemed friend, the Head Tutor of Lowell House, whose services to the crew, back in '31, still live vividly in the recollections of those privileged to row in that remarkable boat. Has the present generation forgotten that breath-taking race against Dunster House for the Thunder Mug (the original gold plated porcelain trophy) when number 7 jumped from his slide at the second stroke but counted his flesh as naught against the race? Or the famous regatta in which...
...late great Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of Germany, was a sober man. When he laughed it was news. Several years ago bullet-headed Herr Stresemann lunched with his good friend Aristide Briand in Geneva and at one remark of Brer Briand's gave vent to a laugh that rattled the champagne glasses. What was the story? Reporters have wondered for years. Last week Sir Austen Chamberlain told the press what M. Briand said he said to his friend Stresemann...
Here General Wing's subordinate, engaged in the less important task of ironing a pair of pajamas, interposed a remark pregnant with all the cynicism of modern youth. "Oh, yeah", quoth the subordinate. His sickly smile quickly disappeared when Wing's glinting eye admonished...
...busily engaged in telling the younger that it is leading the country to the dogs, and the younger has been as eagerly paying no attention to its elders", said Sigurthur Nordal, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, in a recent interview. "That is not by any means a novel remark as anyone will agree", he continued, "but I have noticed that Americans are even more disturbed about the idea of future degeneration than they ought to be. America, from a European stand-point is decidedly not reverting to the primeval state; perhaps some wish that...
...exhibition of "international style" architecture (TIME, Feb. 22) Lewis Mumford, famed author-critic, spoke up last week and said U. S. architects are "unfit to build houses for the America of the future unless they are able to plan as if working for a Communist government." Amplification of his remark was less dramatic. He explained that he meant the building of the future will be large-scale slum reclamation and large-scale cheap housing rather than work for the choosy individual...