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Undergraduate--1st Prize of $500 to Richard S. Salant '35, of New York, N. Y., for an essay entitled "The Poet's Harp." 2nd Prize of $200 to Howard F. Schomer '37, of Oak Park, Ill., for an essay entitled "Robert Frost and the Good Life in the Twentieth Century...
Honorable mention to: Abraham Hertzberg '35, of New York, N. Y.; Joseph Prescott '35, of Fall River, Mass.; Robert L. McCaul, Jr. '35, of Waltham, Mass.; Wendell M. Hastings '35, of Brookline, Mass.; Philippe Dur '35, of Toronto, Ont., Canada; Edward Epstein '37, of Beverly, Yorks, England...
Waverly, N. Y...
Mothers of Drunkards may often be to blame for their sons' habits, Dr. James Hardin Wall of White Plains, N. Y. concluded after finding that a goodly number of drunks in his charge had been pampered, spoiled, overprotected in childhood. As adults "they loved to talk, were fond of singing and were inveterate users of tobacco, indicating rather strong oral cravings and demands for satisfaction." They enjoyed male drinking companions. They were only 18 years on the average when they started drinking, drank up to a quart a day. They had "a craving for the blissful state of infantile...
Included in what the late Mrs. Whitelaw Reid passed on to her children were not only large holdings in the New York Herald Tribune, a Manhattan house, but also a huge, ugly greystone palace on an eminence outside White Plains, N. Y. Last year the contents of the Manhattan house were sold. Last week Son Ogden...