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...Author, born in Paris (1896), like his eccentric bachelors is a member of the ancient French nobility. His family's rank dates from the 15th Century. One of his forbears was cupbearer to Louis XIV; an other lost his head in the French Revolution. Henry de Montherlant served in both the U. S. and French Armies during the War, headed the Propaganda Service of the Comite France-Amerique after the Armistice...
...under the guise of this same internationalism. But you of the right, composed of L'Action Française the clerics, the Royalists & the pretentious. Should the country be turned over to your clique? You dare to criticize the past 60 years government. What about yours during Louis XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII & Charles X? ... You say your enemies are Communists. Bad as it is, you are as bad! And you show your rottenness by attacking Free Masons; for those of France indeed are different from those of England & the U. S. . . . As to the dark pages-you refer...
Since Louis XIV added it to the less innocent pleasures of his court, the pastime of billiards has had many offspring. Most impolite child is pool, which well-meaning persons have tried to dignify by calling it pocket billiards, publicizing it as a family game, rigging up modernistic equipment. Fortnight ago, when the world's championship opened on the Roof Garden of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, the players maneuvered stiffly in dinner jackets before a sparkling audience on tiers of blue & gold seats, longed vainly for spittoons and overhead counters. A preopening shot was more reminiscent...
...Harvard Business School Association is sponsoring a dance to be given Friday, December 6 in the Hotel Somerset. The affair will be formal and will take place in the Louis XIV ballroom, Business students and their friends will dance to the music of Jacques Renard and his orchestra, who is heard over the Columbia net work with George Burns and Gracle Alies. Price for members is $3.30, non-members $4.40, couple or stag...
...Lewis, Sec. 4 Conf. Group X New Lect. Hall Mr. Lynd, Sec. 5, 16, Conf. Group XI New Lect. Hall Mr. Marston, Sec. 17, Conf. Group XII New Lect. Hall Mr. Matterson, Sec. 6, 44, Conf. Group XIII Fogg Large Rm. Mr. Schwarz, Sec. 27, 26, Conf. Group XIV Fogg Large Rm. Mr. Southgate, Sec. 7, 18, Conf. Group XV Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Whitehill, Sec. 8, 26, Italian 5 Sever 8 Latin 8 Sever 17 Mathematics A I (see footnote*) Dr. Hestenes, Sec. 1 Sever 30 Mr. Leighton, Sec. 2 Sever 31 Mathematics 2 I (see footnote*) Professor Beatley...