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After such an opening, the astute reader will be aware that this is a book in which the preferred words are short, the shortest being "I." The principal "I" of the story is a lowbrow, high-income writer who becomes maddened by visions of the girl he left behind him after a farming stint in the Congo. The poor girl, Helen, had been a dance-hall hostess in England. She had foolishly married one Henry Seaman, who at school looked like a "nasty cupid," bullied small boys and dropped white mice down the fronts of girls' dresses...
...shortest story of the issue, Catherine Dawson's Stefan is the sketch of a sewing plant worker. In its repetition and harsh conclusion, Stefan resembles the stories of Sherwood Anderson, sometimes enough so as to seem affected. Written with economy and a great care for words, however, Stefan is a good story because it seems to matter...
Since most of the judging difficulty occurs in the shortest race, the 50, there is constant talk of dropping it from the program of events entirely. But the Harvard-Yale problem of the past three years still would not be solved
...shortest title is that of Roy V. Perry, Bursar. Paul C. Mangelsdorf, on the other hand, is not only Professor of Botany, but also Director of the Botanical Museum, Supervisor of the Bussey Institution, Chairman of the Institute for Research in Experimental and Applied Botany, Member of the Faculty of Peabody Museum, and Member of the Board of Syndics of the Harvard University Press...
...Myth of Brattle Street is dead. The roads to Radcliffe are many and varied, but no longer will Harvardmen be able to whisper in a knowing way that the shortest path is along Brattle Street...