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Tonight, the bell-laden tower will bask its brightest in the brilliant floodlights. Tonight, the tuxedo-flanked High Table will be host to one of its greatest gatherings of College Presidents, Deans, and Faculty. Tonight is one of the last for the retiring Master-builder who has presided over so many in his ten years of rule. His portrait donated by members of the House will be presented to the College and will hung in the House he has done so much to build. Paintings already are there that cover a greater space on the walls. But none will have...
...London-born Robert Grant III (Eton-Harvard-Wall Street). A dark, intent-eyed broker with shoulders that slope as ominously as Joe Louis', Grant can drive a racquets ball faster and more tellingly than any other racqueteer. In the last three years he has cornered the vaunted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, U. S. amateur and open, Canadian singles and both U. S. and Canadian doubles (with Clarence C. Pell Jr.). U. S. racqueteers predict that Grant will handily win the world's open championship from David Milford, if & when World War II permits them to meet...
...legislation unsettling to Business. Secretary of War Woodring even made a speech last week in which he deplored "spending and taxing," apologized that spending was necessary "because we are not prepared to face the graver alternative -depression and chaos." By the time Harry Hopkins arose (in a rented tuxedo) at Des Moines to address its Economic Club, the U. S. (and by shortwave, Europe, South America) was attuned to hear a speech of historic New Deal appeasement...
...past six the dining hall doors are flung open, a vast throng pours through, scrambles for seats, and clamors for food: this approximates the scene which takes place each week in these Houses. And this mass sits and waits while a small group of tutors and undergraduates eat in tuxedo splendor to the tune of choice "dinner-table" conversation. Until the subway rush on the nights of House dinners is eliminated and some method produced to let the uninvited majority eat at its pleasure, it appears improbable that the idea of the House dinner will be adopted by the other...
...Puritans will celebrate the memory of Divisionals and the advent of the summer tuxedo on Friday, May 20, when they will lot loose pent-up emotions to the music of Ray Keating and tis orchestra...