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Died. Sir Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, 57, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth since World Chief Scout Sir Robert Baden-Powell's death in 1941; in Herfordshire, England. In merit-badge circles. Scout Cocks was chiefly famed for first-aid work (he was onetime World War II Red Cross commissioner in Egypt...
...Tennyson and Nature. Daniel Macmillan died, and prospering Alexander moved to "The Elms" in London's Upper Tooting. Writers, clergymen and artists flocked to his house. One of these visitors was the great clerical dignitary, Master of the Temple Alfred Ainger. The Master's evening readings of Shakespeare were famously good and deservedly famous because he himself became so excited that he would suddenly break forth, "Pucklike, into a shadowy dance, swift, graceful, unreal." Another favorite of Alexander's, in fact his idol, was Alfred Lord Tennyson, who did nothing more spectacular than to walk and smoke...
...from the Moscow conference than either of her fellow nations, but is more determined than either to avoid anything like a rupture or failure. The national attitude was shrewdly summed up by the New Statesman and Nation's "Sagittarius" (Olga Katzin), who in a dignified parody of Lord Tennyson saluted the Moscow conference with a fatalistic grin...
...hymns (an increase of about 40) 201 are new. Some hymns have been dropped. Most of these, like Tarry With Me, O My Saviour, were on the egocentric side. The current trend is toward theocentric hymns. Two surprising deletions: Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic, Tennyson's Crossing...
Phelps's Whitney Avenue house, with its Irish setters, cats and parrots, was always open to New Havenites. They came to talk and borrow the books he recommended. For years his T. & B. course (Tennyson & Browning) met in four sections of 150 students each-including athletes who knew Phelps would not readily flunk a contributor to Yale's glory...