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...thousands who sat in Mark Hopkins' classes only a scant 250 lived to journey to Williamstown for his Centenary. Those oldsters remembered him as a great, gaunt, Lincolnesque figure striding under the Williamstown elms in frock coat and top hat, carrying a gold-headed cane. Or they recalled his classes in moral philosophy, when he wrote their names on slips of paper, stuffed them in a pill box and drew them out, one by one, for the order of recitation. Few could remember much more. Reflected Williams' President Tyler Dennett last week: "In stitutions have many...
...Avros, Moranes, Bristol Bullets, DH 4's-were designed with little thought for the comfort or convenience of the men who flew them. Like the prehistoric pterodactyl, which they somewhat resembled in appearance, most of these types are extinct now, were being supplanted before the War was over. Gaunt, unstable contraptions, held together with piano wire (the pilots used to say that canaries could be caged in their rigging) most of them rose slowly and landed fast, crashed easily and were hard to control in the air. When Cecil Lewis began his training, the average life of a British...
...Alfred Dreyfus was the best-known prisoner ever to be confined on Devil's Island, the best-known fugitive is a gaunt, grizzled onetime French newshawk named Rene Belbenoit, who in 1921 broke into the Chateau de Bel AH near Paris and stole the necklace of the Countess of Entre-meuse. Sentenced to Guiana for eight years at hard labor, he escaped and was recaptured four times. He met Novelist Blair Niles on her visit to the colony. She was able to glean from his story enough material for two books which made them both famed...
Having combed New Deal agencies for someone to take 'Quoddy off its hands, the War Department lighted last week on gaunt Director Aubrey Williams of the National Youth Administration. With some $71,000,000 to spend this year on the welfare of U. S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 25, Director Williams was glad to accept 'Quoddy as a present. He will use the buildings for schoolrooms and workshops on an NYA project, build furniture and equipment for other NYA units throughout the U. S. If & when the 'Quoddy Dam passes muster with Congress...
Even more convincing was dapper little Senator James Francis Byrnes's victory in South Carolina over fiery Thomas Porcher Stoney, onetime Mayor of Charleston, and gaunt Colonel William C. Harllee, retired Marine (TIME, Aug. 24). Jimmy Byrnes squeaked into the Senate in 1930 with 120,000 primary votes to 116,000 for Coleman Livingston Blease. Last week, with 250,000 votes to 37,000 for his two anti-New Deal opponents combined, the President's Senate contact man piled up the biggest majority South Carolina had ever given a State-wide candidate...