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Other officers for the new year will be Katherine Wadsworth '50, advertising manager; Anabel Handy '51, literary chairman; and Adrienne Rich '51, assistant literary chairman...
Nerve center of the Key's efforts to help alumni today will be an information and message center which it has set up in Wadsworth House. There the group will keep a complete listing of all class dinners and other graduate events, with personnel on hand at all times to answer any questions...
After graduation, at which his classmate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read a paper on the need for a native American literature, Hawthorne went home to his mother's house in Salem and worked at writing. In nine years he borrowed over 700 books from the Salem Athenaeum, a library whose nucleus men like his father had captured, as privateersmen, from the English. Cantwell has looked up the Hawthornes' library record. He deliberately studied New England, reading among other things the files of Salem newspapers during Hawthorne's lifetime. "The books," Cantwell writes, "provide an almost weekly record...
...Jean Jacques Rousseau was top man at one of the richest autograph auctions in Paris history. A Rousseau manuscript fetched 4,230,000 francs. A batch of letters from Voltaire brought 330,000; one letter from Beethoven, 116,000; one from Descartes, 48,000. For a letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with a bit of verse...
Moscow is the "mecca" of theater-lovers from all countries, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana told members of the John Reed Society last night. Emphasizing the "marvlous new audience" that now floods Russian theaters, he said that the choice of plays in the Soviet capital was larger than anywhere else in the world...