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Francis Marian Goodwin Jr. '31 of Washington, D. C., is the winner of the Sophomore competition for the position of Second Assistant Tennis Manager; Travers Denton Carmen Jr. '31 of Newton is second, and Robert Knox Vincent of Manila, Philippine Islands is appointed Freshman manager, according to an announcement made yesterday by J. O. Ross '29, University tennis manager...
...Stephen Vincent Benet, for the best volume of verse (John Brown's Body, published by Doubleday, Doran, reviewed in TIME. AUG. 6) received...
...Boston, one Vincent Featherstone has sold more than one million tickets in his 39 years in the box office of the Hollis Theatre. Last week he took one of the tickets, went inside, saw The Beggar's Opera, first play he had attended, he said, in 39 years...
SWORDS AND ROSES-Joseph Hergesheimer-Knopf ($3.50) Author Hergesheimer's concept of the Civil War does not startle. He employs no impelling format such as Stephen Vincent Benet's in John Brown's Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues...
...when the much-bruited Channel tunnel (TIME, April 8) is built, people will be able to train-ride across or even walk. But only two men have ever pedalled across the Channel. Hydrocyclist Rene Savard,in 1927, crossed in 7 hrs. 13 min. and last week Raoul Vincent, pumping patiently at the pedals that made his paddles go, got across in "record" time...