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...master of arts degrees. The men receiving this degree as of the Class of 1931 were: Winslow Ames, Yonkers, New York, P. V. Bapat, Poona City, India, C. C. Beach, Chevy Chase, Mary-land, W. H. Bennett, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, J. H. Birss, Jr., New York City, B. A. Booth, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, W. H. Butler, Jr., Wakefield, R. B. Canary, Bowling Green, Ohio, C. E. Carey, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, G. A. Chaffee, Warwick, R. W. Chapman, Groveton, N. H. Kai-Tze Chi, Washington, D. C., C. B. Colton, Dorchester, C. C. Connell, Stonington, Connecticut, Baochuen Dai, Canton, China, J. H. DeNike...
...they were quoted from the gossip-colyum of Walter Winchell in the tabloid Daily Mirror. Directly and indirectly they made Walter Winchell news last week: directly because his colyum was on the street only six hours before Gangster Vincent Coll was machine-gunned to death in a telephone booth, and Colyumist Winchell (who had been frightened into getting a police bodyguard) was summoned before the Grand Jury to explain his advance information; indirectly because they precipitated a new climax in a long-standing squabble between Winchell and Publisher Albert John Kobler of the Mirror...
About "Upheaval" the memoirs of Meadame Olga Woronoff, nee Countess Kleiumichel, and Maid of Honor to the late Empress Alexandra. Booth Tarkingten says: "No writer upon the Russian engulfment has printed a more living account of human beings who lived and perished, were heroic and gay, weak, bewildered and absurdly brave during the months of a Terroy--Madame Woronoff is distinguished for her gift of expressiveness--and her narrative seems to me to be so revealing and so alive and so eminently readable that I could not. If would, refrain from saying that it should be read' by everyone interested...
...Booth Had Missed? Playwright Arthur Goodman has chosen to imagine that a Negro porter knocked up John Wilkes Booth's arm just as he entered the Ford's Theatre box to shoot Abraham Lincoln.? Thereafter Honest Abe is beset by venomous political intrigue, chief movers in which are club-footed Thaddeus Stevens, treacherous Secretary of War Stanton and complacently egotistical Ulysses Simpson Grant...
...tradition Assassin Booth, as he leaped from Lincoln's box to the stage, cried "Sic Semper Tyrannis." One E. V. McGinnis of St. Louis whose great grandfather was Booth's physician and whose grandfather was sitting in the Ford's Theatre audience on the evening of April 14, 1865, claims that what Booth really said was: "I'm sick?send for McGinnis...