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...GAIL BORDEN...
...following were given scholarships: A. Ross Borden Jr. '39, of Cambridge, Coleridge A. Braithwaite '39, of Cambridge, Edgar L. Haff Jr., '39, of Fort Edward, New York, H. Rushton Harwood Jr. '39, of Springfield, John H. Howland '39, of Windsor, Vermont, Bernard Kalman '39, of Roxbury, Leonard E. Leboeuf '39, of Webster, Joseph S. Wysan '39, of Milford, William H. Magruder '40 of Bethesda, Maryland, Walter D. Riddle Jr. '40, of Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, Holland L. Willard '40, of Lawrence, and William A. Braden...
Slender, scholarly Gail Borden of Chicago's Social Register is rarely allowed to forget that the great-granduncle for whom he is named invented condensed milk. Not so well known is the fact that his great-grandfather John and two brothers started the first newspaper in the Republic of Texas, ran it until the Mexican General Santa Anna destroyed their press. Last week Gail Borden recalled this bit of family history when he was lifted out of his congenial niche as columnist and drama critic of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times and made managing editor to succeed...
Where Lou Ruppel specialized in "sock," Managing Editor Borden specializes in poise, acquired at Dartmouth (Class of 1926), Harvard (M.A.), University of Chicago, where he taught Shakespeare until he joined the Times in 1929. He was a flying fanatic until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...
...Times, Gail Borden has been an ardent Guildsman, a great traveler, one of Lou Ruppel's best friends. He was born 33 years ago in Houston, a block from Aviator Howard Hughes (a close friend), is married to Betty Frey, daughter of a potent Chicago adman. They expect their first baby in April. His widowed mother holds about 7% of the Times's stock. Last week Managing Editor Borden had good reason but little time for his favorite hobby : sitting up all night to talk and bib with fellow-newsmen...