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Herbert George Wells, 77, is still fighting the whole world-especially the middle class from whose lower levels he came. In London last week he published 42 to 44, 205 pages of miniature battle, thrusting and cutting at practically everybody in creation except the late voluminous, statistical humanitarian Beatrice Webb (of the socialist tandem: Beatrice and Sidney Webb...
...Beatrice Webb. "She went down to the poor as the saints do; I come up from the poor in a state of flaming rebellion, most blasphemous and unsaintly. Beatrice wanted to socialize the ruling classes and make them do their duty. I wanted to destroy them. Now they are destroying themselves...
Married. Army Captain Quentin Roosevelt, 24, youngest son of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; and American Red Cross Worker Frances Webb, 26, of Kansas City and Smith College ('38); in Blandford, England. Butterfly-Collector Roosevelt collected the Silver Star and a shell fragment with the field artillery in North Africa. His best man: his father...
...mastered the ins & outs of rent piracy. Today the benign Archbishop of York probably knows more at first hand about rackets, gambling and liquor than any other man in England. He studied the problem of permanent unemployment as voluminously as and at much closer quarters than prolix Beatrice & Sidney Webb (Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain). Through the Church he encouraged interdenominational efforts to spread social service, free medical services, homes and nurseries for poor children, recreational clubs. Through the Church and the Government, he fought for slum clearance, boosted low-price housing projects, and the establishment...
...iteration and re-iteration ... snow ... 6c airmail stamps ... meat on Wednesday ... student club singsongs ... Herilhy's "fawn the battalion" ... Kolker and "my name is Marvin J." ... And the case of champagne to: Lt. Beckham, attaining the senile age of 24 come 18 April ... Student Club Saturday night struggles ... Webb, Van Housen, Hope, Bergen, et al, for getting things done ... Captain MacIntosh for our 13-day leave ... and those one hundred iron men on their...