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Most moving plea was by comely, 19-year-old Marie Barker, of Chicago, who wrote Eleanor Roosevelt: "Won't you ask the Army to send me a little of its precious life-saving medicine so that I may have a fighting chance? I am engaged to marry a fine man now serving in the U.S. Army." But Marie got no penicillin: doctors held that it could not save her because her hemolytic staphylococcus infection had affected the heart...
Died. Gloria Gould Bishop Barker, 37, glamor girl of the '20s; by drowning in her swimming pool; near Phoenix, Ariz. A granddaughter of Financier Jay Gould, daughter of Famed Stage Beauty Edith Kingdon Gould, she gave a dance recital at Carnegie Hall when she was 16. She married her first husband at 17, as a playfully ambitious young heiress. Served as a professional greeter at a Broadway movie house and otherwise attracted attention with interviews on marriage, motherhood and careers for women. She deserted society in 1930 after her second marriage, to Contractor Walter McFarlane Barker...
Nine hundred and twenty-five members of the Harvard undergraduate V-12 unit were welcomed last night in Sanders Theatre as Paul H. Buck, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, A. Chester Hanford, dean of the College, and Captain George N. Barker, USN, head of all Navy Schools here, greeted the men studying under the Navy's college training program...
...Captain Barker, in his official capacity as commanding officer of the group, spoke a brief word of welcome to his newest, and one of his largest, schools. The group filled Sanders Theatre to capacity, as they marched in a body through the Yard...
About half of them were previously commissioned on inactive duty as ensigns but resigned their commissions to go active duty. They have no special officer-in-charge but will be under the command of Captain George N. Barker, USN, head of all Navy schools at Harvard...