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...preacher, or a very able man. ... I think they might take somebody like you, Lawrence." Shortly thereafter the Episcopalians did take Dr. William Lawrence to be their seventh bishop. This rich, cultivated, liberal-minded churchman, then 43, had six children of whom the only boy was W. (for William) Appleton Lawrence...
...June 1935 svelte, socialite Mrs. Helen Appleton Read, lecturer and long-time art critic of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, sailed to Germany to organize a monumental loan exhibition of German art for the U. S. with the backing of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation and the Oberlaender Trust. Nazi officials at first were suspicious, but Mrs. Read had a fine argument for Minister for Propaganda Goebbels and Minister for Culture Rust: the French Government had won great and favorable publicity in the U. S. by loan exhibits of the 18th-Century French masters. Would Germany do less...
...announcement of prime importance to all present. That afternoon, said Mr. Adams, the university corporation had accepted the petition for retirement of 69-year-old President Clarence Augustus Barbour, chosen his successor. He was Henry Merritt Wriston, who simultaneously announced his resignation as President of Lawrence College in Appleton...
President-elect Wriston married a gracious Vassarette named Ruth Colton Bigelow of Springfield, Mass., has a daughter at Oberlin, a son at Appleton High School. He also has a black cocker spaniel named Robin, a desk exactly like George Washington's, a sizable collection of phonograph records ranging from Gilbert& Sullivan to Bach. He invariably reads while shaving. He will turn up in Providence for the second semester...
BEING LITTLE IN CAMBRIDGE WHEN EVERYONE ELSE WAS BIG-Eleanor Hallowell Abbott-Appleton-Century...