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...Hegan Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; 1905-Mrs. Humphry Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe, 1908-Rex Beach's The Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When a Man's a Man; 1917-H. G. Wells's Mr. Britling Sees It Through; 1919-V. Blasco Ibáñez's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams; 1921-Sinclair Lewis...
...clock in the morning. Outside Memorial Hall, in a line packed three deep and trailing along Cambridge Street as far as Littaner Center, and hundreds of University veterans waiting to fill V.A. book authorizations. Inside the Hall, nervously awaiting them, are Mrs. Helen McCloskey and a staff of seventeen...
Dorothea Natwick in 1923 plays tennis and flirts with a young libertine, falls in love with a stalwart Progressive from Idaho, and decides to marry the scholarly son of a proud Boston family. The Natwicks, far advanced in airy snobbery, give their clever daughter away at a barn party. Seventeen years later Dorothea's beauty is at its height; she presides over half the gracious living in Cambridge and, at its heart, entertains The Little Group of faculty intellectuals...
...Costs, Up Prices. For the first time since the war began, top-drawer mass magazines were feeling the old summer newsstand slump. But giants like LIFE, Satevepost and McCall's were not. Neither were the glamor mags. Street & Smith's Mademoiselle and Charm, Walter Annenberg's Seventeen and Hearst's new Junior Bazaar were selling pellmell. Women's magazines have made spectacular advertising gains this year. So has the Post which picked up 29% while Atlas Corp.'s limping Liberty lost...
...hundred seventeen NROTC students will put on the finishing touches when they receive commissions at Thursday's Commencement Exercises, leaving the Yard to seersucker, tweeds, everything but Navy blue...