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...east wing of the White House runs a dark little tunnel under East Executive Avenue. Many times through this tunnel last week passed a thickset, youngish man with a big nose and eyes of clearest blue. He wore a linen suit. His teeth bit hard into a Benson & Hedges cigar. He walked fast. Out of the tunnel he skirted the rear portico of the White House (where the presidential kennels are), paced down the west colonnade, marched unannounced by a back door into the offices of the President of the U. S. Nobody barred his way because he was Ogden...
...Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West. There are six rooms for permanent and loan exhibitions of contemporary works. U. S. ship models, silver, glass, etchings and prints. In the basement are studios, work rooms, a library.* Andover chooses to call the donor...
Second 150's: Stroke, C. E. Benson '32; 7, G. L. Dow '33; C. Evan Randolph, Jr. '31; 5, S. H. Stackpole '33; 4, D. L. Carlton '31; 3, C. deW. Perry '32; 2, L. L. Filstrup '33; Bow, J. M. Bigelow '33; Cox, K. A. Wing...
...Treat," To speed his employer's friend Arthur Brisbane (see p. 48) from the National Aircraft Show at Detroit to the Ford plant at Dearborn, Henry Ford's Chief Engineer William Benson Mayo despatched one of their trimotored planes. Wrote Colyumist Brisbane of the flight: "Pilot William W. Mounts invites you to take the controls, not, however, letting go of the dual set himself. The plane puts its nose down, then puts it up, then turns on its side, going 130 miles an hour. That is supposed to be a great treat. It's a mistaken supposition...
...Malcolm Bancroft Jones '24, tutor in the Department of Modern Languages, and George Charles Sumner Benson, tutor in the Department of Government. Under the new ruling, which was made by the master and tutors, not only the dining hall, but also the House library, and, if the House committee so votes, the squash courts as well, will be open to all former residents of Lowell House. The rule is designed primarily to effect those former members of the House who later enroll in Graduate Schools, but will also hold for former Lowell House men who have graduated from college...