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Appearing in the Music Building yesterday to sketch the cultural background of the Middle Ages for Music 1 students, Roger B. Merriman, Gurney Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, co-starred with an intruder in the form of a large Irish Setter...
Around a nest of bridge tables in University of Michigan's plushy Rackham Building, 20 of the ablest educators of Europe and America gathered last week to sketch a brave new post-war world-a world in which education would play a role denied it at Versailles. Like certain famous beer-hall conferences conducted some 20 years ago, this conference had a leader-a tubby, broad-shouldered ex-German named Reinhold Schairer-and a conspiratorial air, but its ideology was far different. In the minds of the conferees the outlines of a new world order took definite shape...
...line with their policy to make the book's 264 pages less serious and more peppy, each page is bi-colored, and the "Forward" and "Content" sections are decorated by cartoons by Sam Ansell '44. Highlighting the feature section of the book is a humorous sketch of a Freshman's career...
...British Politics." And finally, "the impact of his personality was so shattering that I felt, when I left his service, that this had been the private secretaryship to end all private secretaryships." Net result: I Was Winston Churchill's Private Secretary is a short, thin, intimate sketch infused with adolescent adoration...
...glossy coat and a little sporting blood." No one knows exactly why he went to South America. Some thought he might have been on an unofficial mission to Chile, sent by his good friend Henry Wallace, of whom Anderson wrote a strange, ambiguous sketch in No Swank. More probably, like many another American, he had just gone wandering about, looking for other people to talk to, another place to be alone...