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When Actor Frank Craven took a holiday from his leading role of commentator in Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Thornton Wilder stepped into the part. Said Author-Actor Wilder of his Broadway debut: "I stuttered a little over my lines, clipped some of the words, tripped now & then." Said the critics: "He read his lines extremely well...
President John H. Pierpont 38 Vice-President James Mixter '40, Secretary-treasurer David Wilder '39, and Manager Howard Turner '40 announce trials for Freshmen beginning Monday and Tuesday. A new policy of choosing members for the Christmas trip on the basis of faithfulness and ability is to be inaugurated this year...
...asserted that Mussolini was full of Napoleonic ideas of waging open war against the Vatican, that the Pope was fearful, that the Holy See was considering, after the death of the present Pope, holding an election conclave elsewhere than in Vatican City. Some French Catholics had heard even wilder rumors, that the Vatican had sounded the French Government about the feasibility of moving the Holy See, bag & baggage, to liberal, tolerant France...
...Roosevelt I "read about everything worth while . . . history, economics and good fiction"; Taft "had the most legal mind I ever observed." "Some people say Wilson read himself to sleep with detective stories, but I never saw any in his rooms''; Harding read "anything that came along. The wilder and woollier it was, the better. . . ." Coolidge was "a heavy digger after facts"; Hoover favored technical engineering papers; Roosevelt II "collects old English and French books. He shares my love of books and naturally I think he's a great...
...others, like Rose Wilder Lane's Free Land, look solidly good to begin with, turn out to contain the sort of black specks that are sometimes found inside the best-appearing small potatoes. Well-written, soberly sentimental, Free Land is the story of a newly-married homesteader in the Dakota territory. Although claim jumpers, land-grabbers, Indians, horse thieves, come into the story, and the hero is attracted by a neighbor's pretty daughter, Author Lane avoids unpleasant human situations as carefully as a dainty pioneer woman avoiding puddles. Blizzards, droughts and cyclones are the main events...