Word: thurberism
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...appearance of the eleven-piece Gold Coast Orchestra during dinner, through the courtesy of the officers of the Harvard Instrumental Clubs. The Gold Cost will play its Christmas trip numbers from the balcony which over-looks the large dining room. In addition to the Gold Coast orchestra, L. L. Thurber '34, chairman of the Specially Division of the Instrumental Clubs, announces that at 7.30 o'clock in the large common room, twenty minutes of specialty Numbers will be put on for the Class...
...xylophone, followed by the members of the Mandolin Club, who will render "Destiny Waltz", "C. G. V. March". Next R. S. Hurlbut '34 will play on the accordion, and the Gold Coast Orchestra will give a few selections. Following those will be a vocal trio composed of L. G. Thurber '34, Guy Hayes '34, and F. F. Cary '34, assisted by Atreus Von Club will sing "A Winter Song", "Old Man Noah", and "Heidelberg...
...Ralph H. Thurber had faltered into the hospital a fortnight ago with a detailed tale of having become infested with flukes while missioning in the Orient (TIME, May 4). He had, said he, but a month to live...
...oriental disease rarely seen in the U. S. Doctors probed their text books. Internes peeked at the pallid patient. Messages went to Dr. Horace Wesley Stunkard of New York University, authority on those flat, leaflike worms called flukes. Reporters learned to spell accurately trematode, clonorchis. Ralph H. Thurber made fine human-interest copy. That he was a minister diseased for the Gospel's sake added poignancy...
...Ralph H. Thurber was a liar, an unskillful liar. He said his mother lived in Philadelphia. Cleveland authorities tried to locate his mother in Philadelphia. Actually they found her at Lockport, N. Y. Forthwith they took Thurber's fingerprints. The prints indicated a Bertillon record which showed that the man had been in California, Ohio and New York prisons for forgeries most of the time he claimed he was in the Far East. As a forger he was inept. As a missionary he was fluky. But where did he get his worms? That remained Cleveland's puzzle...