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...author of many a crazy drawing, crazy patter. His form of humor: to satirize the commonplace by exaggerating it. His puns are so startling they are often funny; his patchwork of hackneyed phrases so unexpected and alliterative it often shocks you into laughter. Alliterative, too, are his illustrations. With Quentin J. Reynolds of the New York Evening World he has written a lively, whimsical, improbable but satirical yarn in which his hand is evident but not quite evident enough. The chapter-headings, take-offs on an old tradition, are obviously Perelman-propounded. Example: "The foundling on the priory steps...
Harvard Club of Connecticut Valley. President: Walter W. Vander Wolk '17, 39 Greenacre Ave., Longmeadow. Vice-President: Roger L. Putnam '15, 297 Union St., Springfield. Vice-President: Morgan G. Day '14, 102 School St., Springfield. Vice-President: Quentin Reynolds '14, P. O. Box 1482, Springfield. Secretary-Treasurer: George W. Howe '21, M.B.A. '23, care of Wico Electric Co., Springfield...
Zechariah Chafee, professor in the Harvard Law School, will preside at the dinner, which is scheduled for 6.30 o'clock. Following the dinner K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, will speak on the subject, "Does Evolution Justify Capital Punishment," and Father Spence Burton, former chaplain at San Quentin Prison, will discuss the experiences of "A Prison Chaplain in the Death House...
...Grant said that he had committed arson in order to awaken the victims of his robbery, so they would be sure to send him to jail. He explained that he had been unable to make the Redwood Creek baseball team, that an ex-convict had told him the San Quentin prison team was one of the best in the state...
Among those at San Quentin who had felt the full impact of the Keyes prosecution were bad-tempered Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), in for the murder of Mrs. Theresa Mors; Leo Pat Kelle, convicted of killing Mrs. Myrtle Mellus; Herbert Wilson, train robber; Clara Phillips, who slew Alberta Meadows viciously with a hammer...