FAMOUS NOVELIST SEEKS ATMOSPHERE FOR NEW BOOK

Mr. Basil King, famous novelist, visited various suites in College dormitories yesterday to gain an "atmosphere" for part of a new novel he is writing called "The Happy Isles". The hero of Mr. King's book, during the latter part of the story, is a student at Harvard, and it is for this phase of the plot that the author is obtaining his setting. The novel will appear in several installments, the first to be in the March number of Harper's Magazine.