Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan has granted permission for the Student Council to run an informal dance at Boston's Somerset Hotel March 25 for the benefit of the 70th Anniversary Fund drive, student government president Joan Projansky '49 announced last night...
Last month Jordan vetoed a junior-sophomore class request to hold their formal dance at the Somerset on grounds that Annex dances have always taken place in Agassiz House, and there was no reason for breaking with tradition...
Quartet (Rank; Eagle Lion), British cinema's talent-studded gift to Somerset Maugham on his 75th birthday, is a neatly packaged film based on four unrelated Maugham short stories. Expertly scripted by R. C. Sherriff (Odd Man Out, This Above All, etc.) and urbanely introduced by Author Maugham himself, it also makes a handsomely mounted gift for moviegoers who don't insist on all the Hollywood formulas...
...Novelist Somerset Maugham was given a belated 75th birthday party by Manhattan's Overseas Press Club. He blew out a single candle and offered a serene opinion on Britain's future: "There can be no reason to fear for the nation so long as the women of England retain their magnificent virility...
...Eliot, 60, got a nice hand from one of his elders. "I think we all ought to be glad," observed Somerset Maugham, 75, "to have lived long enough to read his poetry...