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Results of yesterday's preliminaries are as follows: 120-lb. Petite defeated Golub; 145, Kameese defeated Gibson, Reilly defeated Reed; 155, Webster defeated Sporon-Fiedler, Parish defeated Ditmars; 165, Weeks defeated Ellis, Hallisey defeated Thompson, Werk defeated Weeks, Bartlett defeated Hinton, Richardson defeated Cushman, and Davis; 175, Robinson defeated Moore, D'Autrement defeated Boardman; heavyweight, McAffrey defeated Pearlstein...
...Webster also presented the University with a gift from the British people, a copy of the first edition of one of the earliest printed books. "The Polycraticus," published about 1482 by John of Salisbury...
Arthur A. Houghton '29, donator of the Library, officially presented the building to the University Saturday night. In addition to President Conant's acceptance speech, Charles K. Webster, former Harvard professor, who is now Director of the British Library of Information and acting as personal representative of Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, addressed the assembled bibliophiles and librarians...
...Ellington menage repaired almost every night after their last show. There Frankie Newton's seven-piece colored band holds forth these winter nights before an enthusiastic mixed audience which doesn't miss the little dance floor that isn't there. For the past week such Ellington notables as Ben Webster and Lawrence. Brown have been sitting in with the boys regularly--high tribute in itself. There are interesting soloists on every instrument, but at least when I was there Frankie led all the rest. Last Monday, after lending Rex Steward his trumpet for a feverish ten minutes, Frankie, who always...
Edward Arnold is hearty and his usual vigorous self as "Black Daniel" Webster, who would rather pitch horse-shoes and sip New Bedford ale than bother with politics. His climactic speech to the jury of despised Americans, far longer than the length of speeches movie audiences are generally supposed to go for, is a beautifully expressive bit of sustained emotion...