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Howard Corning '90 also was born in Portland, Me., and since his graduation from College has lived most of the time in that State. From 1909 to 1925, he was treasurer of the Bangor Railway & Electric Co. and its associated companies, with headquarters in Bangor. He has been president of the Harvard Club of Bangor; and was president of the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs in 1922 and 1923. During the same years he was vice-president of the New England Division of Associated Harvard Clubs and for two years was a member of the committee appointed...
...holiday hours hearing inferior lectures which they would cut were they given at college. So perhaps they are quite necessary. At least they do keep the Billy Sunday tradition vital in the college world and give many a young wall flower the chance to escape her destiny of being born to bloom unseen...
...Alaska, the Australian-born soldier of fortune Captain George Hubert Wilkins, leading the expedition backed by citizens of Detroit, was in something of a hole but was summoning his final resources for a flight to see if land exists between Point Barrow and the Pole. In Spitsbergen, the young Virginian, Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd U. S. N., backed by Vincent Astor, Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others, rested after an historic 1,600-mile round-trip flight to the Pole, and laid out his next course-to wing westward from an advance base on north Greenland...
...Author. Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was born in Manhattan less than 40 years ago, with a long north-of-Ireland genealogy. From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, getting faery lore and the Gaelic. His college learning was at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig; he served an editorial apprenticeship in the U. S. Until he wrote Messer Marco Polo (1921), few guessed his genius and there were money struggles, hard ones. His wife, Dolly Donn-Byrne, writes too-collaborated with Gilda Varesi on the play Enter Madame. There are four little Donn-Byrnes, including the twins...
Brand Whitlock would be a good man to write an Uprooted laid right in the U. S.-the uprooting of small-town folk and their transplanting, with various degrees of success, in big cities. He was born at Urbana, Ohio, 57 years ago, becoming a political correspondent on the old Chicago Record-Herald, and later an assistant to Illinois' Secretary of State at Springfield, what time (1893-97) he tutored in law. Then he went to Ohio, passed its bar requirements and began practicing in Toledo. That town welcomed his vigor and independence, soon (1905) electing him mayor over...