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...from the which will be picked dormitory teams for the Interdormitory meet on January 7. He named the following: Gore; N. B. Epstein, F. C. Evans, Samuel Fishman, S. N. Hankins; P. A. Ketchum, M. J. Mauduley, W. A. Richardson, and W. A. Robinson. McKinlock; E. P. Chase, F. Faulkner, S. W. Fon, and M. S. P. Pollard Smith Thomas Frazier, W. G. Goodhue, L. Grinnell, A. E. Heyman, F. E. McQuade, M. Myerson, A. Plaza, R. K. Safford, J. N. Trainor, E. T. Tryon, P. Vonckx, S. J. Weiss Standish R. J. Carpenter, T. W. Dunn, G. L. Graves...
Payson Dana '04, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CRIMSON and Civil Service Commissioner for Massachusetts, died yesterday afternoon at the Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, after a lingering illness. The funeral will be held on Friday afternoon at the First Parish Unitarian Church, Brookline...
MOSQUITOES-William Faulkner-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A dozen mosquitoes gather on a yacht in southern waters. The mosquitoes are: unctuous Mrs. Maurier, queen mosquito, owner of the yacht, collector of eccentric celebrities; over-mannered Mr. Talliaferro, who carries a malaria germ of artistic small talk; Jennie and Pete, lower order of flies-by-night invited on the party by Patricia, a young mosquito who, none the less, administers the most powerful sting. Other insects-an author, a smalltime poet with a dull buzz, a sculptor-swarm drowsily in the lethargic air. Love affairs, talk, small business, occupy their time until...
...setting of South Wind (sophisticated classic by Norman Douglas) this book has some of its characteristics-a sharp satire, a style of suave surprises. But through its pages blows not a strong and pungent sirocco; instead a slow and tepid wind in which insects may hover lazily. Author Faulkner in this casual and breezy work seems always on the verge of an important irony which he never produces. His second novel is a step up in technique, a step down in importance from his powerful Soldiers...
...become drowsy, lose appetite, weight, and finding real difficulty in breathing, he would turn bluish and eventually die. This has been known since Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, whom French Revolutionists guillotined* in 1794, named the gas. But the reason has been learned only recently-by C. A. Binger, J. M. Faulkner and R. L. Moore. In the Journal of Experimental Medicine they tell how the thin membrane of the lungs, through which oxygen reaches the blood, becomes swollen. Oxygen cannot pass through; the person practically suffocates...