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...nights after Christmas, the colored lights on three large fir trees on a sweeping lawn in the exclusive Point Defiance residential section of Tacoma, Wash., glowed festively through a steady drizzle. They threw a gay pattern on the white front of a fine gabled house. In the living room of the house, where another gaily lighted tree stood, 10-year-old Charles Mattson, his 16-year-old brother Billy, his 14-year-old sister Muriel and her schoolgirl chum from Seattle played and talked as they waited for Dr. & Mrs. William Wrhitlock Mattson to return from a wedding reception...
...William T. Glendinning '38, who threw his heavy weight opponent in 20 seconds, the Varsity wrestling team opened its season by swamping the Tech grapplers...
Last night at the Peabody Playhouse the Harvard Dramatic Club threw a curiously shy Jonah at a strangely talkative whale. Following their admirable tradition they have given us another "American Premiere"--in this case the first performance in this country of a play that has already amused London audiences and will for the remaining evenings of this week amuse Boston audiences. For the audience last night seemed really to enjoy the way in which the Dramatic Club not only brought the Bible up to date but even added a few original touches to James Bridie's text...
...their mother accompanied Low on a banging, booming holiday. First shots were in the harbor of Lisbon, where two Portuguese war boats fired live projectiles in a brief mutiny (TIME, Sept. 21 ) before the Lows sailed on to South America, stopped at Buenos Aires while persons unknown threw a bomb at the British Embassy without much effect. Because the bearded Low is definitely pink in his politics, Britons expected him to be kind with his pencil to President Roosevelt in Washington. Last week, with Low just back in London and working again for Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, cartoon...
...years before her gifted, disappointed husband and 47 years before the publication of his letters. As he had destroyed in 1885 all that he could recover, as well as his diaries and notes, her collected correspondence, published last week in an imposing volume of 561 pages, threw a clear light on one of the strangest characters in U. S. political and literary life. The strongest impression they communicate is that Adams had stupidly patronized a vital, vivid, unexpected character who wrote almost as well as he did and who had a spontaneous liveliness that matched his dry wit. Marian, familiarly...