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...often drawn for The New Yorker by Peter Arno, of a duped husband coming upon his wife in another's arms. In this case old Sir Jasper Fidget is the cuckold and his remark, greeted with wild laughter from the audience, is a mild "how now?" Born in Wollaston, Mass., now a widow of 40, professionally eccentric Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday's Children, Three-Cornered Moon, They Shall Not Die, Ethan Frame) is said to like gefullte fish, poppyseed tarts, icecream sodas, Clos-Vougeot, Marcel Proust, Groucho Marx, alley cats, French poodles...
David N. Mills, of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Choate; Gardner C. Quarton, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Exeter; William P. Sockman, of New York City, Hill; Augustus W. Soule Jr., of Brookline, St. Paul's; Charles G. Swain, of Wollaston, Thayer; Charles F. Whiting Jr., of Cambridge, Belmont Hill; and Masao Yatsuhashi, of Brookline, Country Day School of Boston...
...Under the mellow brick walls of St. James's Palace the blond, horsy young Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, led a gaudy procession to a scarlet-draped balcony. The silver trumpets of the Horse Guards blew a fanfare, then up stepped Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms, looking like a very expensive Jack of Clubs in his stiff gold-embroidered tabard, and began to read from a long parchment scroll. All the world could hear him, for microphones were concealed in the balcony rail. The first sentence lasted twelve minutes without a period. Excerpts...
...salute of 41 guns began in adjoining St. James's Park as the Garter King of Arms. Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, unrolled a great parchment and began to read, his words drowned from time to time by the crash and thunder of the guns. Full text: "We. therefore, the Lords spiritual and temporal of this realm, being here assisted with these of His late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor. Aldermen and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish...
Robert D. Sall '36, of Mattapan; Richard F. Schmidt '36, of N. Cambridge; William F. Schreiter '38, of Walpole; Richard E. Schultes '37, of E. Boston; Joseph Share '37, of Salem; Robert F. Sharp '37, of Wollaston; Paul H. Silbert '37, of Brookline; Eliot N. Silverman '38, of Brookline; Theodore Singer '38, of Dorchester; Daniel T. Skinner '38, of Roxbury; Alec Skolnick '36, of Dorchester; Ralph I. Smith '38, of Braintree; Alcibiades E. Sophos '38, of Lowell; Manes Specter '36, of Cambridge; Frank H. Stedman, Jr. '37, of Jamaica Plain; Edward D. Sullivan '36, of Dorchester; Arthur Szathmary...