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William E. "Digger" Kendall (ex-1940), champion free-styler of the British Empire, former member of the Varsity swimming team, and currently a salesman for a nation-wide bottling concern, has returned to Cambridge and, it is feared, by the party concerned, will take part in the Varsity vs. Alumni meet in the middle of December. The Alumni meet promises to be the hardest of the season...
...more happily in that knowledge. The result has been such a cloud of ill will between Cambridge and Harvard that the real objective--Plan E--has been completely obscured. The sole recrimination against the alleged Harvard participation in Plan E activities which is now causing the University any concern is the tax question. The other proposals can probably be labeled as political folderol...
...will surely have many readers who will be disturbed by the way credit for the Four-Power meeting in Munich today is being laid at the door of Mr. Roosevelt, and who will share my concern lest Mr. Roosevelt or some of his less astute advisers begin to conceive Wilsonian ideas about the role of America's President in saving the rest of the world from its own folly...
...finally acted upon this advice. Tri-Continental Corp. and Selected Industries Inc., investment trusts on behalf of whose sponsoring bankers, J. & W. Seligman & Co., the Bawl Street Journal once advertised, "Tri Continental. Tri Chesapeake Corp. Tri Anything Once," decided to tri underwriting. For the purpose they formed a new concern- Union Securities Corp., with $1,000,000 in cash, $4,000,000 more subscribed...
...Powys and Ford belong to the same genus of bookworm, their appetites differ in numerous details. Ford Madox Ford, "an old man mad about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...