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...remarkable career to this point and, although he is now 60, he may or may not have a yet more remarkable career ahead of him. He comes of French stock. His grandfather, Constantino Cyril Desiré Pinchot, quit France "because of political beliefs. . . ." Gifford, born in Connecticut in 1865, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and to Yale College, where he was graduated in 1889. Out of college he went to France, studied forestry at Nancy, practiced it in the Alps and the Vosges. By 1891 he was back and doing "the first systematic forestry work ever done...
...Hughes, Methodist Bishop of Chicago: "My great-grandfather was taught alcohol was a food, my grandfather was taught it was a beverage, my father was taught it was a stimulant, but I was taught alcohol was a poison. It is time we taught our children that intoxicating liquor was born in Hell and we mean to keep it there...
Students of Siamese affairs, recalling that it has been 33 years since the last child was born in the Siamese royal family, opined that King Rama had acted in the imperative interests of the State...
...Born. To Francis X. Bushman, he-man cinema actor, a grandchild, the daughter of Ralph and Beatrice (Danti) Bushman...
Professor Francke, who was born in Keil, Germany, came to Harvard as an instructor of German in 1884. Three years later he was made Assistant Professor of the History of German Culture. In 1902 he was appointed Curator of the Germanic Museum, and in 1917, when he was made Professor-Emeritus, he became Honorary Curator...