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...Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner and many another writer are glad to see her. Other books: The Love Child, As Far As Jane's Grandmother's, The Triumphant Footman...
...George Townsend Adee, Manhattan...
Because the late Dr. William T. Brigham, director of physical education at Harvard University, took measurements of some 2,000 Harvard students between 1870 and 1880, it has been possible by measuring later students to discover a distinct change in size, an evolutionary trend. Last week Gordon Townsend Bowles, graduate anthropology student, revealed results of his study of measurements of Harvard men, including figures for 400 pairs of fathers and sons-first such comparison thus to be made. Present day Harvard men. the figures show, are on the average eight pounds heavier than their fathers were. Their average height...
...annual 142-mile race to Manhattan. Many of them were professionals little known outside the outboard motor trade, but there were amateurs too: Kirk Ames, stage funnyman; Harold Chapman, who won the race around Manhattan last summer; Bog Flagg, Worcester, Mass., schoolboy; four girls, one of them-Anne Townsend of Greenwich-aged 13 and having her father with her as mechanic in her runabout; C. Phelps Stevens, whose trade nickname is Jonah because he usually gets the best times in the trials, then swamps at the start...
Score--Yale '34. 4; Harvard '34, 2. Goals--Brines, Levan, Lessig, Ed Jones, Payne 2. Substitutes--Brown, Seligman, Hammond, Patton, Pearcy, Earle, Vernon, Robbins and Smith; Harvard, Fields, Hosapple, Wilbur, Carroll, Topalian, Reed, Townsend and Johns. Referee--Reed. Time--Two 30m. periods...