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...executive committee is composed of the following: president, Henry Hurlburt '31; vice-president, Leslie Cheek Jr. '31; treasurer, J. H. Melia '31, while the executive board includes Henry Wesselman '31 and Harold Adamson '31. The cast of the show, which is being given in the United States for the first time when the Harvard dramatists present it to the public, calls for 25 diverging types...
...Iliad. He was in love at least once, with Martha Blount, but realizing the hopelessness of his getting married, he transferred his affections to food. His most famed affair (purely conversational, literary) was with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Says Biographer Sitwell: "Pope's tongue was in his cheek. Pope was a lifelong friend of great Dean Jonathan Swift, 21 years his senior. Swift was parsimonious, but generous to his friends; once when Pope and Gay came to see him he asked them to stay to supper?they had supped; to drink?they preferred talk. The Dean then figured how much...
...thou hast, and give it to the poor." He built up as a young man one of the most lucrative legal practices in India, then devoted all his possessions except the last wad or two of rags to succoring the needy. During the Boer war he turned the other cheek to Great Britain by organizing Indian Red Cross units, served with such passive, non-violent gallantry at the front that he wrung a medal for bravery from the Empire. For his pro-British speeches during the World War he drew another medal...
...room, he knocked down a stranger, thought he had killed him. A cousin in Brooklyn's "Five Points" gang hid him away from the police. When the stranger recovered, young Al was already at work on small "jobs." In a Coney Island fight he was slashed across the left cheek, though later he like to insist that the scar came from War service with the Lost Battalion...
...group of college graduates on their way to study wild life in California, was written by G. B. Barner '30. The songs have been contributed by E. B. Murphy '31, and B. D. Hanighen '30, with lyrics by Murphy and H. C. Adamson '30. J. W. Bethell ocC, Leslie Cheek Jr. '31, and S. T. Birdsall '31, business manager of the club, are staging the production...