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President Litchfield ("Litch," "P. W.," "the Old Man"-but not to his face) is a shipbuilder by heritage. Among his ancestors were George Soule, Mayflower passenger; also Alexander Standish and Sarah Alden, kin of famed Miles and famed John. His immediate forebears, notably the ship-owning and sailing Robinsons of Bath, Maine (on his mother's side) were engaged in the shipping industry of New England. He spent much of his boyhood on the waterfront of Boston, where he was born, and Bath where his family summered. When he accepted President Frank A. Seiberling's offer...
Other famed or inveterate air travelers: William Howard Gannett, 77, of Augusta, Maine,* retired publisher of Comfort who made a 19,000 mi. journey via Pan-American; Alden Freeman, 69, rich and eccentric philanthropist, "Honorary Consul-General of Haiti" (TlME, Feb. 16); Funnyman Will Rogers; Charles A. Levine, first transatlantic air passenger; George Nellis Grouse, Syracuse grocer, persistent Graf Zeppelin passenger and 'first flight fan" of domestic air lines...
Retired. Thomas Bucklin Wells, 56, from the editorship of Harpers Magazine and the board-chairmanship of Harper & Bros., publishers. Editor Wells had been associated with Harper & Bros, since 1899, three years after his graduation from Yale. In 1919 he succeeded the late famed Henry Mills Alden as editor of the magazine. He functioned as general literary adviser in Harpers' book publishing, led the firm's financial rehabilitation...
...some 100 U. S. paintings valued at $1,500,000. Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West. There are six rooms for permanent and loan exhibitions of contemporary works. U. S. ship models, silver, glass, etchings and prints. In the basement are studios, work...
...Berry, Lieutenant Commander W. E. MacKay, and Lieutenant Commander W. E. MacKay, and Lieutenant R. B. McRight U.S.N., who have completed their required two years land duty, will begin sea-duty next fall and are replaced by Commander R. C. Williams of the U.S.S. Barry, Lieutenant Commander C. S. Alden, skipper of the U.S.S. Jacob Jones, and Lieutenant E. A. Seay, executive officer on board the submarine...