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Half-blind Novelist Booth Tarkington, was awarded the [Theodore] Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal, commented on his 73rd anniversary: "I'm not old enough to glory in it, and I'm too old to be cheerful about it." Condoled his chauffeur, "You're looking good...
...surveys of the activities of students in allied nations broaden the issue's scope. Alan Booth, the secretary of the International Student Service in Great Britain, describes the role of students in a nation which has every-day contact with total war, while John Ballantine '42 contributes an interesting survey of education in war-time Russia...
Despite troubles and amateur competition, the big fishing companies have done well. Atlantic Coast Fisheries reported $495,000 profit in the year ended April 30, highest since 1928 and seven times the preceding year. Booth Fisheries earned $429,000, highest ever and almost double the year before. But both companies figure the spree is over: their fishing equipment is going to war, their taxes and operating costs are going...
Conspicuous on one evening lately was a foursome of professional-looking crawl swimmers that for minutes on end swam lengthwise up and down the pool, displaying their best form. On inquiry, one of them was found to be none other than Miss Jean Booth, State Junior 100 Yard Free Style Champion. The three men with her seemed to be enjoying the competition. Some bench-sitters, on the other hand, could be heard voicing displeasure. Exhibitionism was charged...
...picture is a faithful adaptation of Booth Tarkington's 1918 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel about the effect of U.S. industrialism on the feudal Midwest as embodied in the Ambersons. Founder of this dynasty (in 1873) is sharp-trading Major Amberson (Richard Bennett), who has become so rich that the magnificence of the Ambersons stands out in their little clapboard town like a plaid suit at a funeral. Last and worst of the clan is spoiled, arrogant Grandson George Amberson Minafer (Tim Holt), who gets his deserved "comeuppance" (in 1912) from the new industrialism which his baronial mind can neither...