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...transferred to the University in 1934, after three years at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis., and remained here until 1942, when he was repatriated to Japan. He returned to Harvard this fall under the American-Japanese Intellectual Interchange Program...
Chicago Lawyer Adlai E. Stevenson (Princeton '22) ventured far north in Ivyland, took a seat in Harvard Memorial Church's Appleton Chapel, dandled on his knee plump, 13-week-old Adlai Ewing IV (so christened there), son of Adlai III (Harvard '52). When the presiding minister spurned a christening offering and suggested that the money should go into a bank account for Adlai IV, Grandpa Stevenson quipped: "Here is one infant who can credit his baptism and you with his solvency...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: MAN OF THE CENTURY (969 pp.)-Archibald Henderson-Appleton-Century-Crofts...
...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had an eye for beauty. As a man. he had a hankering for beauties. He had married one (Mary Storer Potter) in 1831, but she died four years later while they were traveling in Holland. Only months had passed when, in Switzerland, he met statuesque Fanny Appleton. a proper Bostonian of 19 whose wealth and social position matched her looks and charm. His grief notwithstanding, the young (29) widower wasted little time. They talked and walked by the Rhine, Longfellow reading poetry aloud as he plodded along behind her. He was not yet the gentle greybeard whom...
PASTOR & MRS. H. E. SIMON Faith Lutheran Church Appleton...