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Herman M. Somers, lecturer on Government, also spoke on the panel, and expressed his opinion that enormous pragmatic difficulties made a third party unfeasible at this time.
Its leading characters are Johnny Somers, history teacher; Crow Johnson, a hard-eyed, mean, man-about-Pineboro; Bill Boone, onetime football star; and Blackie Boone, his wife-"ask anybody in Fillmore about her." The portraits have the hard authenticity of those notices that are put up in post offices of...
The trouble with the first 50 pages (and with the book) is Johnny Somers, the sole exception to the pattern. Johnny, the hero, is 21, shy, inexperienced, friendly, the sort of person to whom good-natured drunks confide their life histories, because he is too reticent to relate his own...
His wife Blackie is as amoral as Bill, but far more intelligent, moving from Bill to his brother-in-law, from a happily married man to Johnny Somers, and from innocent Somers to a rural Machiavellian, Crow Johnson, managing violently dramatic exposures of her lovers, public humiliations, or rejoicing in...
Peter W. Fay '45, this year's Ivy Orator, won the Philip Washburn prize for his thesis on "Toryism and Social Discontent in Pre-Victorian England," while Sumner and Toppan prizes went respectively to Thomas E. Baker and Herman M. Somers, both of whom are Ph.D. candidates.