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...Call (C) '39 Lowell L. C. Clark '41 Lowell, c. c., H. A. Burgess '40 Leverett D. S. Grey '40 Kirkland, r.g. r.g., R. S. Eustis, Jr. '41 Winthrop P. G. Counlhan '39 Adams, r.t. r.t., M. Thurston '40 Lowell J. M. Koufman '41 Dudley, r.e. r.e., G. Ak'ra'n, Jr. '40 Adams R. S. Prarlo '39 Ellot q.b. q.b., M. J. Gordon '41 Lowell R. E. Lewis '40 Lowell, l.h. l.h., R. H. Weller '40 Winthrop W. H. Whitman, Jr. '39 Adams, r.h. r.h., J. F. McClure '39 Kirkland Q. W. Balley, Jr. '40 Dunster...
...things amuse the Australians. One was a comedian named George K. Fortescue. A massive man, he paced the boards in an opéra bouffe of the 90s wearing a gargantuan pink ballet skirt edged with pompons, roaring out feminine lines in full bass. So thoroughly did he delight the fun-loving citizens of Sydney, they gave him an indigenous and characteristic present: a robe made from 80 pelts of the weird duckbill, or platypus. There seems to have been none like it before or since...
...politics. He is soundest in his estimates of older statesmen and most informative in his reminiscences of personal contacts with World War generals. But as Author Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police and for Nihilists, reported on each to the other and had to maintain card files to keep his machinations straight); represents the fun-loving, light-witted Alfonso XIII of Spain (chiefly notable during his reign...