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...golf pros as racing addicts give to form sheets, no one would have been surprised last week when, at the close of the winter circuit, the Professional Golfers Association announced the top money-winners of the season. Leading the field for the second year in a row was British-born Harry Cooper of Chicopee, Mass., never yet Open champion but generally considered the most expert golfer...
...Born in Flushing, L. I. in October 1895, Lewis Mumford was brought up on Manhattan Island, knocked around from City College to New York University to Columbia studying philosophy, biology and literature without getting a degree. In 1915 he met the most pervasive influence of his life in a little book by a Scot named Patrick Geddes, a biologist trained under the great Thomas Henry Huxley. Geddes had turned to sociology and to the study of Edinburgh and other cities. Mumford became a student of New York. Within the next few years he covered the city systematically on foot, studied...
...converted to Catholicism 13 years ago after having dabbled in Socialism as a writer on the New York Call, in Communism as an employe of the old Masses and the Liberator. For almost five years her colleague on the Catholic Worker has been Peter Maurin, 60, a genial, peasant-born Frenchman who, for the sake of his principles, gave up giving French lessons, became a laborer at a boys' camp. In 1932, reading two of Miss Day's articles in Catholic magazines, he discovered they spoke the same language, and hastened to outline to her his ideas...
Divorced. Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; by Alice Busch Hager Preece, daughter of the late St. Louis Brewer August Anheuser Busch Sr.; in St. Louis. Grounds: cruelty. Two years ago Sportsman Preece was divorced from Lily Busch Magnus, his second wife's second cousin...
John Warkentin was born 25 years ago in Hamburg, Germany, son of a Russian Mennonite preacher and teacher who took a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and is now a professor of German literature at Bethel College. The elder Warkentin is currently trying to have the Supreme Court pass on his application for citizenship, which has been refused because, abiding by the tenets of his religion, he will take no oath to bear arms. Son John will take no such oath either. He studied at Brown University under Dr. Leonard Carmichael, went along with Carmichael to the University...