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Undersecretary Castle is not like that. Twelve years in the State Department have bred into this slender, grey-haired. grey-eyed man a profound regard for the formal usages of his profession. He would no more give an ambassador such stark instructions than he would dine at the French Embassy in overalls. Yet behind his correct exterior the new Undersecretary is a man of real ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Castle for Cotton | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...downtrodden. Wozzeck is a poor bewildered soldier, stationed in a small German city in peacetime. His captain bullies him, a crackbrain doctor experiments on him, his mistress philanders with the drum-major, who has chest like a bull and a beard like a lion." Twenty-six terse, stark scenes tell the tragedy. Wozzeck stabs his mistress, drowns himself. At the end, while the news is gibbered through the streets, their child rides about on his hobbyhorse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wozzeck in Philadelphia | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Adopting a constitution and electing officers occupied the attention of the first meeting of the new Camelot Club, which was held at the Union last night at 8 o'clock. The first-steps in organization were taken by electing the following officers: president, Martin Charles Stark '33, of Washington, D. C.; secretary-treasurer, Edgar Jacobs Davis '29, of Merrimac. After the business of the meeting was attended to, the members proceeded to play the game after which the club is named. Three new sets were presented to the cub by G. S. Parker of Salem, who introduced the game last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMELOT CLUB OFFICERS ARE NAMED AT FIRST MEETING | 2/18/1931 | See Source »

During the preceding round Harvard had blanketed the Dartmouth team by a score of 4-0. advancing to a two-point lead over Yale which made victory nearly certain. In the final contest Stark defeated Fennell of Yale, at the first table, by the capture of two pawns, scoring after 52 moves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD DEFEATS YALE TO GAIN CHESS TITLE | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Score--Harvard 2 1-2, Yale 1 1-2. M. C. Stark '33 defeated M. Fennell; W. A. Robertson '31 tied E. Borsodi, Alex Saron '31 defeated M. Tager, and O. Southard '32 lost to H Ryder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD DEFEATS YALE TO GAIN CHESS TITLE | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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