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Author Carmer went to the University of Alabama, near Tuscaloosa, as associate professor of English. He was greeted hospitably, despite the fact that he was born in New York State. On his first evening in Tuscaloosa he made the acquaintance of the Southern vin du pays, corn whiskey. He never learned to like it, calls it "as vile and as uglily potent a liquor as ever man has distilled." One day in class he made the innocent mistake of comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon...
...team in scoring with ten goals and 21 assists, which proves conclusively what a fine playmaker he really is. On the other hand, Powers leads in actual goals scored with a total of 14, while Guibord and Morton are close behind with 13 and 12 respectively. Bob Bennett and Vin Fitzpatrick make up a defense which has been especially effective in recent games. The team reached its peak in the first Yale game at Hanover, which it won by a 3-1 score in what was the opening encounter for both teams in the Intercollegiate Quadrangular Hockey League. Since that...
...efforts to make America into a wine drinking country will certainly fail dismally when such enormously high prices are levied; those who mours the hard liquor propensities of Americans should consider the fact that in France, the country which they generally set up as a model, a good vin ordinaire may be had for $.30 and a wine that is drinkable for as low as $.12 a quart. TERTIUS...
...felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name: William Reitzel) worked in Cuba a year five years ago, there wandered the countryside, spoke the language, watched the people instead of the politicians. Young Spaniard Jose Perdriga found Cuba rather puzzling...
President of the Association, re-elected last week for a third term, is Harold Vin cent Milligan, organist of the (Rocke feller) Riverside Church and of its predecessor, the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Born 42 years ago in Astoria, Ore., he is blond, bespectacled, looks less esthetic than businesslike. He has studied early U. S. music, written the sole biography of Composer Stephen Collins Foster, com posed songs, organ pieces and operettas. Lately he has devoted all his time to organ-playing and managing the N. A. O. and the National Music League which, with Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn...