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...following group of Freshmen were selected from the 32 who originally participated: George M. Bennett, Robert G. Drake, Thomas L. Farmer, Robert N. Ginsburgh, George W. Gootz, Frank F. Goodman, Robert Harwood, Wade Rockwood, Howard M. Spire, Thomas M. Stanton, Joseph Tekulsky, and Alex Williams...
...Ramsgate, Dover, Southampton (see col. j). In the headlines appeared damage to such sentimental landmarks as St. Giles, Crip-plegate, in London where Oliver Cromwell was married and John Milton buried. Milton's statue was blown from its pedestal before the church (see cut). Also damaged were the spire of Rochester Cathedral, Novelist Henry James's house...
...manuscripts. U. S. colleges, universities, women's clubs, school children, actors, policemen gave more than $1,000,000 to restore the library. In 1928 the new library was dedicated. Designed by famed Architect Whitney Warren, it was built of white stone and red brick, had a tall spire and a carillon of 48 bells...
...gathered to celebrate the town's 300th birthday. The gallery's walls bore a stupendous weight of 19th-Century socialites, intellectuals, artists; 18th-Century pirates, privateers, naval heroes; 16th-Century divines. And among them hung paintings of the Colonial churches, including Trinity's Christopher Wrenish spire by one of Newport's best known resident artists, Helena Sturtevant...
...some of the world already knows too well, the symbol of New York City's forthcoming World's Fair is a heroic abstraction from solid geometry: a Trylon & Perisphere (a 700-ft. triangular spire and 200-ft. globe). Between now and March 15th, a lot of U. S. poets will try to translate that symbol into verse. Their incentive: a $1,000 first prize (and five additional prizes of $100 each) offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets...