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...Brewster Kopp '47 and Robin F. Worthington '47 will defend the negative position for Harvard in tonight's debate. Among the Judges will be Walter J. Cunningham, instructor in Physics and senior tutor of Adams Houses, and Kurt W. Lessen, proctor in Lowell House...
...Boer War imperialists. As chairman of Daily News, Ltd., Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge don who once edited the Economist; pedantic, competent Editor (since 1936) Gerald Barry, a Saturday Review alumnus, and tack-sharp Robin J. Cruikshank, 47, a big, curly-haired six-footer who is regarded the top newspaperman...
Roaring Century. When he became a director of both papers last summer, Robin Cruikshank began an idle perusal of the 1846 file of the Daily News, intending to write a centenary leader for last week. He soon became convinced that 1846, the paper's first year, was, for England, as Bernard DeVoto had found it to be for the U.S., a "Year of Decision." The article grew into a forthcoming book (Roaring Century...
Lincoln Ellsworth, 65, perennial polar explorer, was off again early in the first year of peace-perhaps the first robin of an old-fashioned explorers' spring. (Admiral Byrd had already begun to yearn aloud for the South Pole.) Explorer Ellsworth headed for the Rift valley volcanic areas in East Africa; after that, said he, would come the Antarctic again. "I just cannot keep away...
...Monkey," and hugged him to her breast on public occasions. When the hopeful Duke-an ugly little man with pockmarks-scurried over, Elizabeth mooned with him in corners and proclaimed him her long-sought true love. But overnight she decided that he was just a pest-and summoned sweet Robin to escort the Duke home again...