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...best families, wrote rather harshly about having to stay in Illinois in the summertime. William C. Boyden, Harvardman, literary lawyer, did a comic piece about actors and actresses he had known. He used to be theatre critic for the earlier Chicagoan. Another old contributor-Durand Smith, Oxonian, Lake Forest socialite-sent in some travel notes from Italy. Helen Young wrote a page of tittle-tattle. She is society editor of Hearst's Herald & Examiner. William Randolph Weaver, younger brother of Poet John Van Alstyn Weaver (In American) and the magazine's editor, wrote about soap models...
Since Helen Wills Moody was entered in the Women's National Singles Championship at Forest Hills last week, there was no doubt that she would win. It was merely a question of whom she would beat and how badly...
Author Raynolds' tale is of two brothers, men of stature and sinew, who roam together through the Western U.S. forests and are devoted to each other. The indeterminate time is laid somewhere in the 19th Century, well before civilization had made romance an undesirable alien. But Author Raynolds, though he is at some pains to set a convincing forest-&-wilderness scene, is not concerned with being historically accurate. The Brothers talk sometimes like minor prophets and sometimes like sophomores; but you don't mind: it is all a kind of legend, with a good enough yarn to carry...
...prettiest. Dorothy Round and little Phyllis Mudford, whom no British player beat last year, had never played in the U. S. before. Betty Nuthall, plumper and more jolly than ever, was the team's No. i. They arrived in the U. S. three weeks ago, last week at Forest Hills lost the Wightman Cup to a U. S. team five matches...
Compared with the averages of the three preceding years, the percentage of failures in all subjects taught in 1930-31 at Lake Forest had been reduced 47%. The honor roll (grades of 80% or better) had lengthened 21%. No longer was there necessity for extra study hall for loafers. "A marked general horizontal increase in all grades" had occurred. Each day from willing moppets a master could get 150 lines of Vergil whence but 30 lines could be wrung before. Headmaster Big Dick felt that he had made his boys work and -what was more important-like...