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...WOOLLCOTT READER-edited by Alexander Woollcott-Viking ($3). A 1,101-page anthology of Alexander Woollcott's favorite reading, including Richard Harding Davis' The Bar Sinister, Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy, selections from the work of Clarence Day, Lytton Strachey, Evelyn Waugh, Thornton Wilder...
Milton J. Rosenau, Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, emeritus, engaged in research and teaching of preventive medicine at Harvard for more than a quarter of a century, was hailed as the leader of his profession in America at a dinner given in his honor last Wednesday evening by the New Century Club...
...English guide named Jackson Phillips, a friend and rival hunter called Karl who always triumphed over Hemingway. When Hemingway killed a rhinoceros at 300 yards, making a beautiful shot that filled him with elation, Karl casually brought down one twice as large. When Hemingway traveled without his guide into wilder country to bag a kudu the real object of the hunt, Karl shot a much nobler specimen almost without effort. Since Green Hills of Africa is an attempt to write "an absolutely true book." Hemingway does not conceal his acute jealousy of Karl, or his bitter disappointment when each...
...Secretary Roosevelt motored over to Annapolis to help celebrate its goth anniversary of that event. From far & wide gathered thousands of old Navy men who with their families strolled the quiet, trim, tree-lined yard in a sunny haze of good fellowship and sentiment. The Founder's grandson, Wilder Dwight Bancroft, famed Cornell chemist, made a speech. From a fleet of submarine chasers and launches a "White"' force of midshipmen swept up the Severn to rout "Blue" defenders in a re-enactment of the capture of Veracruz. In the afternoon Navy's football team beat University...
Peter L. Scott '38, E. Craig Thomson '39, Robert W. Tilney '39, William Vaughan '38, Robert C. Walker, Jr. '38, David C. Wilder...