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What's Ham? Affable, broad-shouldered George Boyce, 52, had begun his teaching career in Eastern prep schools (St. Paul's, the Lake Placid School, the Chestnut Hill Academy). He had been working with Navajos for more than nine years. At Brigham City he lost no time getting the wheels turning. Within six months, with a $3,700,000 appropriation, he had remodeled every room in the hospital, built a gymnasium and seven other new buildings, organized a staff of 130. By January, George Boyce was ready for his first pupils at Intermountain Indian School...
Whirling Couples. Sani carves what he knows best: country dances, boar hunts, pig auctions, cottage-building and chestnut-shelling. He once did some reliefs for a Via Crucis, but under pressure. "How can I carve such things," he grumbled, "when I've never seen them happen with my own eyes...
Arthur W. Arundel '50, riding his chestnut gelding Red Peril, captured second place in the annual Point to Point Five Mile Steeplechase yesterday at Warrenton, Virginia. Arundel's mount finished close behind the winner, Mallory Nash's Lord...
...Lehmann fans the performance in Manhattan's Town Hall had the air of a religious rite. They sat devout and mouse-quiet while the singer, dressed in sober black, her chestnut hair caught back in a plain bun, leaned gently against the curve of the piano. Without properties, costume or conspicuous gesture, Soprano Lehmann recreated the aging Viennese beauty with her oldtime fire and finesse...
...which he pictured so tenderly in The Last Time I Saw Paris. About one-third of the 1,500 people who lived on the street in the early '30s were still there, he reported. Oldtimers included Mme. Frémont, the laundress, Taxidermist Noël and the chestnut vendor. The traffic was the same as 20 years ago, said Paul-it was a marvel anybody was alive...