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David W. Prall, assistant professor of Philosophy, has been appointed Senior Tutor by Kenneth B. Murdock '16, House-Master, to take the place of Allan Evans '24, Instructor in History, Dr. Evans has been Senior Tutor since the House started and has resigned in order to conduct research in the field of medieval history...
...Donald Rowell '37, W. Grosvenor Davis '37, F. Lee Wendell '38, H. Shippen Goodhue '38, Renouf Russell '38, John A. Roosevelt '38, Willliam S. Pier '38, Benjamin Welles 2d '38, Gilbert E. Jones '38, Cammann Newberry '37, Fitz William Sargent '38, Charles S. Mac Veigh Jr. '38, E. Allan Dennison '37, John MaC. Graham...
...theatrical, rococo writer, Showman Hecht spreads hokum and verbiage with a lavish hand. Most effective in this swollen vein when he writes about the greasepaint dramatics of Broadway or the alcoholic hilarities of fabulous newshawks, at his middling worst he seems a dim shadow of O. Henry or Edgar Allan Poe. Best story in the book (Snowfall in Childhood) stands out like Shirley Temple on the stage of the Grand Guignol: a simply written reminiscence of first love. Some others...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., one chilly night, police picked up an unsteady partygoer who managed to identify himself as Captain James Allan Mollison, famed British aviator and husband of famed British Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison. Sobered, fined $10, Captain Mollison explained in court next morning: "When I consumed three or four cocktails, more or less, it rather topped me. Not at all blotto, you understand, but just jingled, so to speak. I felt top hole but when a couple of your bobbies drove up alongside and suggested that I get in their bus I gladly accepted their invitation. I told them...
Onetime professor of English at Harvard, William Allan Neilson will announce his resignation as president of Smith College this spring--to take effect probably in June...