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...John Brown's Body' [by Stephen Vincent Benét] was a step in the right direction. I've read it once and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages. Three hundred lines is about the limit. Kipling's 'Recessional' really did something to England when it was published. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around...
...McMichael '33, Leon Manheimer '36, Mark Mazel '35, J. K. Mitchell, Jr. '34, V. R. Montanari '33, W. A. Munroe '33, A. Nichols, Jr. '34, J. L. Noyes '34, J. A. Olivet '33, Vincent Palmer '35, E. C. Pugh '33, R. R. Reed, Jr. '34, W. E. Richardson '35, M. P. Richmond '34, W. P. Rockwell '35, Sumner Rodman '36, L. Rosen, H. O. Sebring, Jr. 3L, Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. '32, H. B. Shepard, 2d '34, W. S. Sims, Jr. '33, A. T. Smith, Jr. 2L, Ben Sommers '34, W. Spencer '34, Emil Steck, W. H. Stevsky...
...week of Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee as Mayor of New York did more to damage the reputation of James John ("Jimmy") Walker, his predecessor, than a year's investigating by Samuel Seabury. Mayor McKee, young, handsome, sober, tackled his new job with a vigor and thoroughness that made many a New Yorker who had forgotten what good government was like gasp with happy astonishment. A new broom, he swept clean and by last week had accumulated a sizeable pile of Tammany trash...
...cocked hats with long white feathers. St. Benedict's Commandery followed, with its Ladies' Auxiliary in blue-sashed white dresses; then small pickaninnies, the white-veiled Children of Mary, led by Negro nuns; at the end, many a Negro member of the Holy Name and St. Vincent de Paul societies. The 4,000 Negroes were reverently proud. Delegates to the eighth annual convention of the Federated Colored Catholics of the U. S., they were attending the first organized all-Negro mass ever celebrated in great St. Patrick...
...bandits derailed the Chang chun-Harbin train, killing twelve, injuring 47. They kidnapped an undetermined number of passengers, robbed 600. One of the passengers was Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation.) He escaped unhurt, with passport and money, lost only his luggage. With William Vincent Astor, Ichthyologist Charles Haskins Townsend, nine guests and several thousand kingfish and sea bass aboard, the Astor yacht Nonrmahal sailed from Manhattan for Bermuda. The fish, which are indigenous to the Atlantic Coast, were to be dumped overboard near Bermuda, to acclimate them to warm waters in hope of producing...