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...silent cinema; of a throat infection; in Hollywood. During the early '203 he blushed, grinned and gallus-thumbed his way into $100,000 a picture, spent much of his fortune on turquoise bathtubs, lost most of the remainder in his independent production of The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923). Penniless by 1934, he later accepted bit parts, tried to write scripts...
Expected to arrive since the middle of August up to September 13 the ASTP Reserves finally pulled into Cambridge this past week to take up quarters in Standish Hall of Winthrop House and in time to organize before beginning classes next Monday and Tuesday...
Company C will settle in Mather Hall of Leverett and the two remaining companies, D and E, will fill the now empty Winthrop, by taking over Gore and Standish Halls. Companies A and B are already situated in McKinlock and Vanderbilt Halls...
...buried our heads in case books and until Monday morning understood little about them. Suppose Folsom pump was NOT operating at maximum capacity. What difference did that make to us? Suppose Mr. Little of Standish Foundry broke three blood vessels trying to refinance the corporation. No difference. Look at the senior midshipmen. What were they doing? Sitting in their billets, passing much scuttlebutt amongst them, lounging at the student club and laughing knowingly when we mentioned cases. Why not follow their example and laugh at the whole case question as well...
...more of it now that Disbursing Afloat is out of the way. Some of us had tea at the Longfellow House the other afternoon and had a lovely time being shown about by a descendant of the original Longfellow. Others of us had a pleasant visit at Camp Miles Standish on Sunday where we enjoyed meeting some Canadian officers who put our boys to shame in the glory of their plaid trousers and ties to match...