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Robert H. Wescott, engineering manager of the University, testified before the Council that the building of the new steam tunnel would save the University money by connecting the three Prescott St. dorms with the existing central heating plant...
...with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand's book: Frank Norris' Mc-Teague, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Thomas Wolfe's You Can't go Home Again, and, more recently, John Brooks's A Pride of Lions. Perhaps no other literature is filled with so many revisited home towns as the American, and it may be because the emotional distance between...
...GREAT MODERN SHORT NOVELS (448 pp.)-James Joyce, Herman Melville, Katherine Anne Porter, Nikolai Gogol, Glenway Wescott, William Faulkner-Dell (paperback...
...Hornblower period; in Porter's Noon Wine, the madness and death of a farmhand and the suicide of a farmer in horse-and-buggy Texas; in Gogol's The Overcoat, the acquisition and loss of an overcoat by a clerk somewhere in pre-revolutionary Russia; in Wescott's The Pilgrim Hawk, the liberation and recovery of a hunting falcon in the garden of an expatriate lady somewhere in France; and in Faulkner's The Bear, the pursuit of an unusually large bear in the boondocks of post-bellum Mississippi...
...Electric Bond & Share's Ebasco Services Inc., one of the world's biggest designers and builders of utility plants. Gardner began working part-time for Electric Bond as a 25?-an-hour draftsman. He became vice president in 1945, executive vice president in 1952. T. C. Wescott, 67, moves up from president to vice chairman of the board...