Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry James, famous trumpeter, will make his first appearance here Monday evening, May 23, when he and his band play at the Adams House Dance, G. Scott Olive, Jr. '40, chairman of the Dance Committee, announced yesterday...
Married. Richard Scott Mowrer, Rome correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, son of its editor, Paul Scott Mowrer, nephew of its Paris correspondent, Edgar Ansel Mowrer; and Rosamund Cole, of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune; in Rome, 20 minutes before the bridegroom had to leave Italy because the censor did not like his dispatches...
Richard H. Sullivan '39, President of the Council, announced last night that the following Juniors were to serve: John H. Sisson, Robert H. Glazer, G. Scott Olive, Jr., George Dana, and Harold Glickman. Sophomores on the committee are: Francis Simpson, Richard Abernathy, Seth Crocker, and Joseph P. Lyford...
...bargain day this week for adventure-story readers. For the price of one big book, they could get three. Captain Horatio Hornblower is an omnibus of Cecil Scott Forester's three novels (the first two, Beat to Quarters and Ship of the Line already published) of an English naval genius in Napoleonic times. More imaginative than Mutiny on the Bounty, it is that rare book, adventure romance treated realistically, lively entertainment with sound historical background, fast narrative with subtle characterization. Captain Horatio Hornblower stacks up with the most exciting and best written adventure stories in the language...
...Author. Wiry, soft-voiced, 39-year-old Cecil Scott Forester has written more than 20 books, took 15 years to find the public's range. Born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of a British civil servant, he first took to writing (verse) when he was a medical student at Guy's Hospital, London. His interest in the sea began on trips between Egypt and England during his boyhood, on one of which he was wrecked off Malaga. Between the ages of 23 and 26, while writing ads, peddling verse and carpets, he wrote several novels and biographies, prefers...