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...fund was established by Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry in the hope of "cementing bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...
High Marks. Howe was born in Waltham, Mass, to a family whose ancestors had been Americans for more than 200 years. U.S. Naval Hero Stephen Decatur was a collateral relative; Julia Ward Howe, who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic, was a distant cousin. Howe's father was a carpenter who built small houses, one at a time. Howe went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, got high marks, and stayed on for a year as an instructor in engineering...
Four American students will receive Henry Fellowships enabling them to study at Cambridge or Oxford Universities during 1952-53, trustees of the Charles and Julia Henry fund announced yesterday...
...girls, Julia, is out to trip Max into matrimony when a recent flame named Amabel shows up with an older idea. She appears in a dressing gown, soon has Max frothing and fumbling. When the pair rejoins the others, Amabel looks "like a cat that has just had its own mouse coming among other cats who had only had the smell." But Amabel's triumph is short. When the fog lifts, the only kitten Max has eyes for is gentle Julia, who sports retractable claws...
...sinister shadow play of symbols, Green tries to suggest that life is more than a kittenish spree. A pigeon falls dead on the first page; Julia worries endlessly about not packing her good luck charms, "her egg with the elephants in it, her wooden pistol and her little painted top"; a spindly mystery man gibbers in changing dialects about the grave illness of somebody's stricken aunt. Like signposts in limbo, these point everywhere and nowhere. And Party Going's old-fashioned pastime-noodling flea-brained upper-class Britons-is next door to limbo. Writing this novel...