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Bohlen is the father of a Radcliffe senior, Avis Thayer Bohlen; and Demos, who will speak at the Baccalaureate Service, has a neice among the graduates...
...land. For the rest, along with Mary Cassatt, John Audubon and Childe Hassam, there were some art ists who had scarcely been heard of for years. A former naval person like the President would understandably favor a seascape by James Bard. But a Mount Monomonac by the sentimentalist Abbott Thayer, who died in 1921, or a portrait of Queen Victoria by the stodgy Franz Winterhalter, whom Ruskin dubbed a "dim blockhead," were plainly special tastes...
None of the 13 dorms represented won more than a single first place. Individual honors went to Mike Crofoot of Thayer Middle, who had a first in the 50-yard butterfly and a second in the 50-yard backstroke. Close behind him were Frank Willis of Wigglesworth East (first, 50-yard freestyle; third, 100-yard freestyle) Mike Crichton of Weld South (first, 100-yard freestyle; third, 50-yard freestyle), and Forney Hutchinson of Pennypacker (second in 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle...
...that this was not done by crooks and knaves. In that case, we could have a campaign with a slogan "throw the rascals out" and set up for a year or two a reform Administration. Nor have I had much patience with those who would like to punish [Judge] Thayer by impeachment or any other process. Unfrock him and his judicial robes would fall upon a pair of shoulders not different by the thickness of a fingernail...
...Russia, by Charles W. Thayer. Author Thayer, an old diplomatic hand at the Kremlin from the early days of the five-year plans, has a feeling for the steppe-like sweep of Russian history and offers a carefully balanced account of the Soviet regime. He places Stalin in the succession of grandiose tyrants who either demoniacally (Ivan the Terrible) or pragmatically (Catherine the Great) have ruled Russia with the knout. One memorable vignette: Secret Police Chief Beria reviling the comatose Stalin as a monster on his deathbed and then dropping to his knees in slobbering sycophancy as the unconscious dictator...