Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Lautner from the Westminter Choir School of Princeton and Dorothy Baker, soloist at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York have leading roles. Soloists from Harvard include Fred Rogesin '30 as Thauatos (Death), Herbert Moss 2G as the Herald and Heracles, James L. Morrisson '38 as Evander, and David MacAllister '38 as Apollo...
Mathematician Edward Kasner, 59, of Columbia University, is one of the mythical baker's dozen of savants who were supposed to be the only men in the world able to understand the Einstein theory of relativity. At Harvard's Tercentenary celebration in 1936, he showed how to bisect a "horn angle" (an angle formed by two curves tangent to each other), a problem which had stumped mathematicians for 2,000-odd years. His fun: talking to children...
...harped on the fact that they read it from "cover to cover" (see p. 4). One of the first to use the phrase was Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. Among the other early enthusiasts famous enough to turn young editors' heads were Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Van Dyke, Newton D. Baker, Mrs. Elizabeth Marbury, Thomas Edison, Archbishop Michael J. Curley, Bernard Baruch, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Joseph Hergesheimer, Henry Ford, Elbert H. Gary, Herbert B. Swope...
Engaged. George Fisher Baker 3rd, banker son of the late great banker son of the late great banker; to Frances Drexel Munn, Philadelphia socialite, descendant of Biddies, Drexels, Astors, Munns; in Palm Beach...
Final judges are Theodore Morrison '23, assistant professor of English, Kenneth P. Kempton '12 and Howard Baker, instructors of English, and Richard Ruhike of Little Brown and Company, publishers. Contributions must be in by March...