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James R. Carman: 150 lb. Crew, House New Winthrop House Committee, House Committee Chmn., House D. P. Committee Inter-House Dance Committee Football Ushering Section Head...
William Berrien, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and a former head of the department, and Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, inspected Cannon House one snowy day in 1946 with these aims in mind. The Modern Language Center is Professor Berrien's child; he started it and, as chairman of the Center's administrative committee, has been the gilding hand behind its activities and improvements. A former teacher at the University of California, Professor Berrien has been associated with the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and presently holds a permanent representative post on a UNESCO committee. This last position...
Even when he was riding an alligator in the forests of British Guiana (see cut) or indulging his habit of "scratching the back of his head with the big toe of his right foot," Naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of England. The Watertons of Walton Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons...
...frightened by a ferocious rabbit, Poetess Elizabeth Bishop as if she were a bored high-school sophomore, Poet Cummings as if he were an English gentleman slightly repelled by his own rowdy verses, and Poet-Physician William Carlos Williams as if he were droning out a prescription for a head cold...
Perfect Crime. In Electra, Texas, while P. H. Loftin was standing on a street corner someone stole his hat off his head...