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Henry A. Murray, Jr., Thorpe Nesbit, Neal O'Hara, Donald K. Packard, T. S. Thorndike, Herbert E. Tucker, Paul B. Watson, Albert J. Weatherhead, Benjamin P. Whitney, Frank Wigglesworth, Grafton L. Wilson...
...Kindred were pretentious; Clifford Odets' Night Music and Elmer Rice's Two on an Island were Boy-Meets-Girl potboilers. Hemingway's The Fifth Column was interesting for more than a title which has since become part of the language; but by the time Benjamin Glazer finished rewriting it, much of the play's realistic force was obscured by romantic nonsense. Best of a bad lot was Robert Sherwood's "There Shall Be No Night," which owed as much to the audience's apprehensiveness as to Sherwood's art, but was a frequently...
Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages, and D. H. McLaughlin, Professor of Geology were elected for two years. One year terms were given to Benjamin F. Wright, assistant professor of Government, and Jeffries Wyman Jr., associate professor of Biology...
From the Class of '41 were named Benjamin A. Barnes of Chicago and Winthrop House; Joseph P. Lyford of Westport, Connecticut and Lowell House; Alan Gottlieb of Winnetka, Illinois, and Kirkland House; Charles Gillfix, Jr. of Revere; and Harry Hornblower, Jr. of Boston...
Connecticut's Representative James A. Shanley told the House that Benjamin Franklin had envisioned parachute troops in 1784. In a letter about balloon ascensions in Paris that year he wrote: "Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them...