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...Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves are virtually burlesques: almost everything the old maid does smacks of melodrama, almost everything the old soak does smacks of farce...
...young hero, who has somewhere picked up an accent that is neither Canadian, cockney, nor English, is opposed by his foster-father's sister (Catherine Willard), a "congenital virgin," and is not very elaborately received by the object of his attentions, either: she has "acquired her virginity," but she naturally has a change of heart before the final curtain...
Born. To Navy Lieut. Joseph Willard Roosevelt, 27, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late Maj. Kermit, and Nancy Thayer Roosevelt, 25, Manhattan socialite: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Simon Willard. Weight...
This evening, at 7.30 o'clock, a reception for all new students in the Kirkland Common Room will be addressed by Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, and Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admission. Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen, Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, and Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, will speak at the required meeting for new students in New Lecture Hall tomorrow morning...
...only worked a 2½-hour day. And he had to watch himself (he gave up smoking at 81, drinking at 92). But he kept busy. On the day he signed the lease, he had also to go across the hall to see capable, 36-year-old Willard Cole, Hub executive Vice President and Lytton's probable successor. Then there were ads to be criticized, brief conferences with store executives, additions to the list of invitations to his 99th birthday party (July...