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...Henry Augustus Ward was a zestful young scholar who studied at Williams and under the late great Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, at Cambridge. He later attended the School of Mines at the University of Paris, paying his expenses by collecting and selling European fossils. In 1861, aged 27, he became a professor of natural science at the University of Rochester. He assembled a group of skilled preparators which, at one time or another, included Carl Akeley, Charles Livingston Bull, William T. Hornaday, Frederic Lucas. He sold a $20,000 collection of fossils to the university, but went ahead with...
...first time since he established residence in England, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh piloted an airplane of his own, a new black & orange 200-h.p. touring monoplane which he tested at Reading Airdrome. Built secretly to specifications prepared by himself and Designer Frederick George Miles, the ship is equipped for blind flying, fitted with a transparent, sliding roof, tandem seats convertible into bunks...
...Olver Tamblyn (Colgate 1903) was membership extension director of the Atlantic Division of the Red Cross when he met John Crosby Brown (Yale 1915), scion of the banking Brown brothers, son of Union Theological Seminary's onetime Professor William Adams Brown who married Anne Spencer Morrow to Charles Augustus Lindbergh. After conducting money drives for the Red Cross in 1920, they formed Tamblyn & Brown, a firm which prosperously endured until two years ago when the partners quarreled. Mr. Brown now runs Tamblyn & Brown and Mr. Tamblyn has launched Tamblyn & Tamblyn with his son, a recent Colgate graduate. The original...
David N. Mills, of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Choate; Gardner C. Quarton, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Exeter; William P. Sockman, of New York City, Hill; Augustus W. Soule Jr., of Brookline, St. Paul's; Charles G. Swain, of Wollaston, Thayer; Charles F. Whiting Jr., of Cambridge, Belmont Hill; and Masao Yatsuhashi, of Brookline, Country Day School of Boston...
...with Miss "Buttercup" Kennedy. It was also noticed that Mrs. Simpson, according to the evidence her lawyers introduced, suspected her husband of infidelity and was having Mr. Simpson followed by detectives at the time when Mr. & Mrs. Simpson dined with Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, as the guests of King Edward at St. James's Palace (TIME, June 8). If there had not long ago been established in Buckingham Palace, both above stairs and below, competent U. S. news contacts, it would not have become known this week that 36 hours after Mrs. Simpson...