Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., since the retirement of Devereux Milburn most famed of U. S. poloists, Wartime flyer who was shot down behind German lines and later escaped from Germany, socially prominent resident of Long Island & Aiken, S. C.; to Mrs. Margaret Mellon Laughlin, daughter of Banker William Larimer Mellon, grandniece of Andrew William Mellon, relict of Alexander Laughlin Jr., late President of the Central Tube Co. of Pittsburgh. On June 12, 1926, Mr. Laughlin had an appointment with his dentist, said goodbye to Mrs. Laughlin. She next heard that he had died while under the dentist's anesthetic...
...imposing list of names lines the table of contents. Included are Sherwood Anderson, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Lewis Mumford, Babette Deutsch, John Gould Fletcher, Mark van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Waldo Frank and many others...
...Yard was receiving his friends, was perhaps also giving one of his famous impromptu readings. Last week news came that the light will continue to burn. Professor Copeland will keep his rooms, will occasionally lecture-will inevitably "read aloud from a book." Wrote Author Conrad Aiken in the Harvard Crimson: ". . . One of those resignations of which the acceptance can only be official...
Married. David Aiken Reed Jr., 24, son of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, to Nancy Bell Ross, onetime wife of Elmer W. Ross, St. Louis public accountant, and mother of a six-year-old; secretly in St. Louis, a month ago. Last week they left for Santiago, Chile, where he is employed. Said Senator Reed to reporters who suggested that he had disinherited Reed Jr.; "A pack of fairy tales...
...following review of the current issue of the Advocate was written for the Crimson by Conrad Aiken '11, former President of the Advocate, and Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...