Word: grosvenor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Reginald Bunthrone and Archibaid Grosvenor, the Fleshy and the Idyllic Poets, played by Bradley M. Walls and Richard M. Murphy fitted about the stage with true aestheticism. Walls' face was a delight to behold as it changed to meet the mood. But credit for the best single performance from a list of many excellent ones must go to Elizabeth Spencer, who was suitably padded with pillows to play Lady Jane. Her aria in the beginning of the second act-done with a bass fiddle-brought down the house...
Ambassador Lewis Douglas was back in London after the dollar talks, minus the patch he has worn over his left eye since it was snagged by a wind-blown salmon hook last April. He paused on the front stoop of the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square to exchange grave greetings with an old family retainer named Reggie...
Allen, Samuel Marston '51, Barrett, Theodore Boutelle '51, Bordman, John '51, Clark, David Crawford '49, (Captain), Grosvenor, Richard '51, Menslage, Robert Pearce '51. Osbors, Charles William Shores '51, Potter, Williams Suittes, Smith, John Haleay, Jr. '50, Perry, Heary Bradlee '50 (Manager...
...fund of $10 million, mostly from the Geographic's tax-free earnings (it is classed as an educational institution). Besides the magazine, the society also publishes books, bulletins and maps, maintains a 20,000-volume library, sponsors geographic lectures and underwrites scientific expeditions. Grateful explorers have named after Grosvenor a Greenland sea shell, an Antarctic mountain range, an Alaskan lake, a Chinese plant and a Peruvian fish...
...Editor Grosvenor wields an autocratic blue pencil, even on articles written for the Geographic by U.S. Presidents, e.g., Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge and Hoover. Most articles and "legends" (captions) are written by the studious, well-paid editorial staff of 149. Grosvenor sets the tone, which is frequently florid, sometimes quaint, always polite. Says Grosvenor: "We prefer to print only what is of a kindly nature." He has even found a friendly word to say for wasps...