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Died. John Eliot Wolff, 82, professor emeritus of geology at Harvard University; of thirst and exhaustion; in the Mojave Desert, California. Motoring across the desert (where the heat often reaches 120°) for a one-day camping trip, Geologist Wolff apparently got stuck in the sand. While awaiting death or rescue, Professor Wolff wrote a codicil to his will, leaving a bequest to his gardener...
...throne, and five of his brothers & sisters arrived the next night. Already in jampacked Lisbon was Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot. En route was onetime French Premier and Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Also on the way was onetime Austrian millionaire Baron Eugen Rothschild and his American wife, the former Catherine Wolff of Philadelphia...
Last fall, two of the crammers (the University Tutoring School and Fletcher Briggs) gave up the ghost. Early in May the College Tutoring Bureau followed suit. Still busy, however, were the two biggest tutoring schools. Wolff's and Parker-Cramer. Last fortnight, Harvard's Dean A. Chester Hanford socked them in the solar plexus. Any student who attended a commercial tutoring school, he announced, would be "liable to disciplinary action." Harold A. Wolff, proprietor of the biggest school, promptly announced that his school would give up tutoring, would restrict itself to "educational counseling" of students "who have done...
Album of Shakespearean Song (Mordecai Bauman, baritone, Ernst Victor Wolff, harpsichordist; Columbia: 6 sides). Rather lugubriously sung anthology of Shakespeare ditties, most of whose settings (by Thomas Arne) were written in Georgian times, but some of which (It was a Lover and His Lass by Thomas Morley) may actually have been sung in Shakespeare's own productions...
Debating for Harvard was Payson R. Wolff '42 and Eliot I. Suider '41. Because of individual excellence, second place was granted Harvard despite the fact that Amherst also captured three out of five decisions. Wolff was awarded a medal for the best individual record in the series of contests. Snider was recently elected to the Varsity Debating Council...