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History Professor John K. Fairbank, professor of Government, Rupert Emerson, and Edwin O. Reischauer of the History department will appear in a symposium on the Far Eastern problem. Bruce Hopper and Carl J. Friedrich, both professors of Government, will also take part in the school's program...
...Died. Rupert D'Oyly Carte, 71, millionaire owner of the world-famed D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.; in London. Son of the company's founder Richard (who brought and held together for 21 years the explosively hostile Gilbert & Sullivan collaboration, and made them the biggest money-making team in theatrical history), Rupert inherited his father's flair for show business and real estate, held controlling interests in London's Savoy, Berkeley and Claridge's hotels, the Savoy Theater, Simpson's Restaurant...
Next day the Pacific National Exhibition held its bathing beauty contest in Vancouver. Of 14 entrants, only three were Roman Catholics. The winner: Brunette Margaret Brain, 17, a Protestant (Church of England) from Prince Rupert...
When the phrase "flower of England" was used to describe the young English dead in World War I, the name of Rupert Brooke was one of the first that usually came to mind. Headed for the Dardanelles assault in 1915, Brooke got septicemia from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord...
...hardbitten or tired English tempers in later years, that felicitous pre-1914 age came to seem almost mythical; and Rupert Brooke, its golden lad, became himself a myth, romantic, heartbreaking, and also a little flimsy. He had written, when the war began...