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...Author. Philip Guedalla, 42, after a brilliant career at Oxford (where he was President of the Union and "took a first" in Modern History), went to London to practice law and politics. His itch for history was too much for him; in 1923 he dropped everything else to scratch with both hands. Of a proper historian he says: "He must reconstruct the past, set old breezes stirring once again, and-most elusive miracle of all-bring the dead back to life." After reading Wellington you will admit that Guedalla knows his business, has done his duty. Almost painfully witty...
When a haemophile receives the slightest scratch he begins to bleed profusely and the wound heals so slowly that the haemophile may easily bleed to death. Well ex-King Alfonso knows that ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain transmitted haemophilia to their sickly son. Spain's ex-heir, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias. That the poor boy has lived all these years is a miracle of science and a tragedy. Had the Crown Prince been stronger, unpopular King Alfonso might have abdicated in his son's favor which might perhaps have saved the dynasty...
...couple of weeks of continuous painting I become hollow-eyed. . . . They tell me my work is too brutal sometimes, especially when I do forests. . . . Why should I not paint the forests as they are; is not nature often brutal? I go hunting in the Rockies in Colorado. The trees scratch me, scrape me, their roots trip me . . . and I am expected to come back and paint a park scene...
Broad jump--won by W. c. McCarthy '35 (6 in.); second, J. D. Woodberry '35 (1 ft.); third, W. L. Hansler '34 (scratch). Distance...
...yard low hurdles won by J. C. Grady '33 (scratch); second, D. B. Cheek '34 (scratch); third, Robert Murphy '32 (scratch). Time...