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...HAPPY LAND-Eric Knight-Harper...
Three years ago Yorkshire-born Eric Knight won a critical success with Song on Your Bugles, a first novel vividly evoking Yorkshire textile workers of 25 years ago. (Author Knight, ex-reporter and Hollywood writer, emigrated to the U. S. as adolescent.) Deft but less vivid, The Happy Land tells the story of a coal-mining Yorkshire village on the dole. In particular it is the story of the motherless Clough family, the spunky fight of eldest daughter Thora against depression odds which send one brother to prison, frustrate the talents of another, turn her father into a fiercely baffled...
Because Yale is the overwhelming favorite to win the league crown this year, the toughest battle and the most important one for Captains Eric Cutler and Al Vande Weghe will be this evening's contest for second place in E.I.L. standings...
Other competitors for the post of Marshal, and their votes, were: James D. Lightbody, Jr., 123; William C. Coleman, Jr., 116; Mason Fernald, 108: Frederick Holdsworth, Jr., 98; Douglas Mereer, 88; Ward M. Hussey, 81; Eric Cutler, 80; Blair Clark, 69; John S. Stillman, 68; Torbert H. Macdonald, 66; Henry A. Burgess, 61; Langdon B. Gilkery, 40; and William H. Daughaday...
Jack Medica's world's record time for the 220 free-style is 2:07.9, but because this is one of the most unbreakable records in the books, anything, up to 2:16.5 is considered excellent. From 2:17 to 2:22 is thought of as good. Captain Eric Cutler can do close to 2:13, but Charles G. Hutter '38 holds the Harvard record at 2:10.8. Hutter also set the Harvard mark for the 50 at 28 flat. The world's record is 22.5, made by Peter Fick. Anything under 24.5 is excellent, while clockings from...