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...press of a button by Governor Rolph in California, a plane despatcher at Newark Airport, N. J. waved his red flag one night last week at a Ford tri-motor, just christened The Comet. (Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh who had been expected to act as despatcher watched from the background.) Pilot Robert Le Roy raced his idling motors, taxied across the floodlit field; The Comet roared up into the western night. Next evening it alighted in Los Angeles...
Engaged. Elisabeth Morrow, 29, eldest daughter of the late U. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; and Aubrey Niel Morgan, member of the Welsh banking firm of David Morgan, Ltd., founded by his grandfather. Miss Morrow, who was once reported engaged to her brother-in-law Charles Augustus Lindbergh and last year to Rev. Clyde H. Roddy of North Arlington, N. J., met Banker Morgan in 1930 when she accompanied her father to the London Naval Conference...
Four are deans: at Rutgers, Walter Taylor Marvin; at Princeton, Christian Gauss, Augustus Trowbridge, Luther Pfahler Eisenhart. Three became headmasters: Emerson Boyd Morrow of Gilman, Louis Wardlaw Miles whom he succeeded, and Charles Hodge Jones of Silver Bay School (New York). Department heads at Princeton are Roger Bruce Cash Johnson (philosophy), Edward Samuel Corwin (politics), Duane Reed Stuart (classics), Robert Kilburn Root (English), Charles Rufus Morey (art & archaeology), Henry Norris Russell (astronomy), Charles Grosvenor Osgood Jr. (formerly English). Department heads elsewhere: Ernest Ludlow Bogart (economics, University of Illinois), George Dwight Kellogg (classics, Union University), Gilbert Ames Bliss (mathematics, University...
Next night at the Coliseum the Prophet, heavily veiled as always, presided at the annual ball. Crowned Queen was debutante Myrtle McGrew Lambert. She is the daughter of Albert Bond Lambert, onetime president of Lambert Pharmacal Co. ("Listerine"). He gave Charles Augustus Lindbergh his first $1,000 toward financing his transatlantic flight, gave St. Louis the ground for its municipal airport, Lambert-St. Louis Field...
...There were unknown babies (but no pickaninnies), royal babies (Baroness de Bardossy of Hungary), socialite babies (Peter & Palmer Dixon of Southampton, L. I.), champion babies (Gillingham F. Landis, onetime winner of the Ocean City, N. J. baby parade). There was no mention of deceased baby-of-the- year Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. or unborn baby-of-next-year Smith Holman Reynolds. Promised for the next issue-was the "inside story" of "the most famous baby in the world. She was famous even before she was born. Her existence disturbed a number of highly important people, and there were legal battles...