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...diverse sociological interests as the American Foundation for the Blind and the Playground & Recreation Association of America, such diverse topics as Children and Educational Publicity. Numerous (313) were the meetings, numerous (471) the speakers. So much was there to hear that the Conference appointed a general consultant, Alexander "Uncle Alec") Johnson of Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1897 president of the Conference, 1890-93 general secretary. Puffing on his pipe "Uncle Alec" sat at a desk in the Hotel Statler and told bewildered conferees how to get the most good out of the Conference, what persons to see, what meetings...
...COUNTRIES-Alec Waugh-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Author Alec Waugh, less gifted, less sprightly a writer than his brother, has been more places, seen more things. Says he: it all started in the spring of 1925 when the London Daily Graphic gossip writer spoke of Mr. Waugh's imminent departure to the South Seas. Mr. Waugh had planned no departure; but his friends became so importunately curious that finally he went. This book describes his adventures...
...Author Alec Waugh went to Sandhurst (England's West Point), was captured in the War, spent months in a German prison camp. Other books: The Loom of Youth, The Lonely Unicorn, Cardcastle, Kept, Love in These Days, Nor Many Waters, Three Score...
...clock, the third of the Arthur Whiting series of Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music, will be presented in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Kirkland Street. The artists who are to perform tonight are: Mr. Arthur Whiting, Pianoforte; Mr. Alec Compinsky, Violoncello; and Mr. Manuel Compinsky, Violin...