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Laird Bell '04, of Chicago, was elected president of the Alumni Association at the Saturday night meeting of the Board of Directors, the Association announced yesterday. Succeeding John L. O'Brian '96, of New York and Washington, Bell will serve for one year from Commencement on June...
Impatient at brides who flirt with fortune by arriving at his church as much as twenty minutes late, the Rev. Brian Purefoy last week upped his organist's fees from two to four guineas. Prompt brides will get a two guinea refund...
...last week he marshaled his lady, his three children (Rose Maureen, 13, Shane William, 10, Brian James, 6) a nanny (nurse), an aide-de-camp, a valet, a maid, a secretary, a lady in waiting, three dogs, 28 trunks and suitcases onto the four-stacker Aquitania in Southampton (see cut), and in a grey drizzle set sail for Halifax...
Here again Olivier helped out Shakespeare. Shakespeare gave to a cynical soldier the great speech: But if the cause be not good, etc. Olivier puts it in the mouth of a slow-minded country boy (Brian Nissen). The boy's complete lack of cynicism, his youth, his eyes bright with sleepless danger, the peasant patience of his delivery, and his Devon repetition of the tolled word die as doy, lift this wonderful expression of common humanity caught in human war level with the greatness of the King...
...small state is on the losing side," said the spiritual descendant of the great warriors Cuchulainn and Brian Boru, "it can be utterly annihilated. If [it] is on the winning side, it has no means of [enforcing] the principles for which it fought...