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Warden is only a wheatfield flag stop on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, and its four-room brick-front school has only 13 high-school pupils. But the 13 would be plenty and the subjects too many if brisk Mrs. Evans did not have the right kind of kids in her classes. As it is, she teaches English to six while seven others study by themselves; she need only start off the typewriting class, let the students supervise themselves while she trains the school band...
This is Queen Victoria's eminent biographer caught in the act of composition by his great friend. Sir Max Beerbohm, caricaturist, author, wit and dandy. Last week Sir Max's brisk, elegiac tribute (Lytton Strachey; Knopf; $1) to his late great friend was published in the U.S. It was also the tribute of a dying age to one of the most distinguished of its dead. Wrote Sir Max: "We are told . . . that the present century is to be the Century of the Common Man. We are all of us to go down on our knees . . . and worship...
Night Shift. In Santa Monica, Calif., police charged that Edwin Kiedrowski, having noticed where a large bus was always parked for the night, had made off with it four times, operated a midnight-to-dawn service to Port Hueneme, 60 miles away, done a brisk business at 50? a passenger...
Last week they got one, from brisk, burly Leon Fraser, 54, president of the First National Bank of New York, who spoke before the New York Herald Tribune Forum in Manhattan. International Banker Fraser helped negotiate the Young and Dawes plans, and later (1933-35) served as president of the Bank for International Settlements (The World Bank...
...Delhi last week, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester took office as India's 19th Viceroy. The ceremony was as simple as Lord Wavell's brisk arrival by plane, as austere as the task he now faces...