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Harvard's new pictorial wall calendar for 1945 will be available to the public this week, the Harvard University Press announced yesterday. Twenty-three studies made for the famous--Wedgwood Harvard chinaware by Kenneth Conant, professor of Architecture, have been adapted to lithography and have been reproduced on the calendar in red and blue...
Doctors aboard ship gave him first aid, then rushed him ashore, where nurses and orderlies handled him like a piece of priceless Wedgwood. After X rays had located the projectile, surgeons working from behind a steel plate deftly and delicately removed it. Marine ordnance men exploded the shell, sent the shattered casing to Gordon, now convalescing...
Died. Josiah Clement ("Josh") Wedgwood, 71, Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston, great-great grandson of the famed pottery's founder, Member of Parliament (a Liberal and later a Laborite) for 36 years; in London. Never active in his family's business, he was briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...
...Dawson '46 of Winthrop House, and Nathaniel P. Lauriat '48 of Eliot House, were declared first-prize winners in the 127th annual Boylston Speaking Contest. Winners of the three second prizes were Haskell Grodberg '44, of Eliot House, Jules C. Ladenheim '44, of Leverett House and Ralph J.P. Wedgwood '46 of Adams House...
...will be made by Haskell Grodberg '44, who will give Thucydides recording of excerpts from the Funeral Speech of Pericles. Following this, Nathaniel Lauriat '43, will read excerpts from the "Areopagiticus" of John Milton. Jules C. Ladeheim '44, will give Abraham Lincoin's Second Inaugural Address, and Ralph J. Wedgwood, '46 is to read the Christmas Sermon from T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral...