St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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90 THE 1940 ALBANIAN Class Prophecy fC0l7fil7Zt6Cl from Page 881 Intelligence Service. A registered veterinarian and the one-time owner of Washington's largest horse-and-dog hospital, Doctor Hare is now taking care of a large number of thoroughbred artillery mules somewhere back of the lines. Trible, who used to be a private detective in Brooklyn, is now rendering invaluable service to the army as a secret operative. Unimpaired by a large and conspicuous stature, he is particularly adept at slipping through the enemy's lines and getting hold of their secret plans, which he copies down word for word before escaping to safety by the skin of his teeth. Three members of the Class of 1940 are not in the fighting zone. Walter' Swift, whose quiet manner and hnely chiselled features were always clear proofs of an Indian ancestry, discovered soon after leaving Saint Albans that he was a direct heir to a large tract of land in Okla- homa, together with a score of oil wells and a score of million dollars, the property of his late fourth cousin, Chief Roaring Buffalo of the Sioux. He immediately purchased Bill Manger's racing yacht, and is now on a diplomatic tour of the South Seas, reputedly spreading propa- ganda for the Allies. Not to be outdone, Burr Piggott, after an unfor- tunate love affair with a cafe-society glamor girl, is drowning his sorrows in furious orgies of gambling at Monte Carlo, preparatory to signing up for ive years in the French Foreign Legion. Safe and prosperous is John McClure, one-time prominent member of the New York Stock Exchange, who left the United States after considerable trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He recently amassed a huge fortune in arma- ments, reputedly by salvaging obsolete machine guns from public parks and selling them to belligerent nations. At the present time he is dicker- ing with Mussolini on a ucamphorated gunpowderf' a sort of mothball compound, which he guarantees will make projectiles travel 600 miles per second faster. f fEdif01 5 nofeg Theraboveg dispatch was written byw Van Ness Philip, who at the outbreak of the Third World War, had resigned his post as Ainbassaidor to the Court of St. James to get back into the journalistic profession, which was his first-love. Philip, known in student days as the man who never slept, had, to the great amazement of all but his classmates, been invited to fill the recently-vacated editorship of The lVaxhingfo11 Posf, immediately following his graduation from Saint Albans.j , G 1 W , 1 lf .Smal V ,gig .fi gr 'A fy? 7420 'fa' :J Q11 fl U - it ' ' 9. l N

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92 TI-IE 1940 ALBANIAN Calendar Qctober 10. Fan mail?-Larrupin' LeFevre receives a Western Union Kiddiegram during evening study hall, while jealous admirers sit and wonder. October 20. Quizzing his class on Burn's Humble Petition to Bruar Water, Mr. Scott asks Philip what animals come to the banks of the Bruar, and is perplexed by the dreamy answer, Well, sir, the lovers willf' October 21. Photographic duplicity-Intrigued by the Photomatic at the Ice Palace, Swift puts a dime in the slot, poses, is snapped, and finally receives the print of a young lady. November 23. I-le's all wet-Asked why there is no water in the bucket for thirsty players in the Saint James game, Niel Platter tells Mr. Lucas that he doesn't think the team needs water in view of the fact that it is raining. January 9. Asked in history class to name the authors of the United States Constitution, Hall is stumped, but asserts that Martin Luther must have helped. January 22. Roughly awakened at midnight by an earsplitting am- plification of The Stars and Stripes Forever, Upper School boarders jump out of bed in puzzled terror as Alexander gropes desperately to shut off his portable radio, and the wrath of the authority descends to conhscate the infernal machine. February 2. Advertising solicitor Myers resigns in disgust when a downtown clothes merchant whom he is assigned to interview not only declines a five-dollar ad in the Albmzicm but succeeds in selling him a fifty-dollar suit. February 23. After all, what can one expect-A disgruntled Piggott, after attempting vainly and falteringly to describe the intricacies of Disraeli's foreign policy to the modern history class, suddenly flares up, intercepts further cross-examining with the terse question, What do you think I am, a diplomat?', April S. Disney for President-Trible solemnly swears to his friends that Pinnochio,' is the first picture since Snow White the subtleties of which he has been able to understand. June 1. Premature hatching-Members of the Sixth Form, who had expected to receive their Certificates wrapped around duplicates of the last brick to go into the Cathedral, were shocked beyond all comparison to be suddenly and honorably discharged from the School, and to see at last the gates of college swinging open.