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...vigorous, professorial man who was born in Cambridge and has taught at Harvard 41 years, Dr. Ford has been decorated by France, Italy, Rumania and Spain for his zeal in spreading their languages, literatures and histories. He has written or edited more than 20 textbooks and anthologies, is editor of Henry Holt & Co.'s Spanish series, has been president of the Italian Historical Society of Massachusetts, the Dante Society and (1931-33) the solemn American Academy of Aris & Sciences...
...took the lid of secrecy off the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, made arrangements for spot-news releases on happenings in that famed and gloomy jail. As a pressagent, Assistant Suydam knew what Washington correspondents wanted because he had been a successful one himself. Brooklyn-born and Dutch-speaking, he was World War Correspondent for the Brooklyn Eagle. He ran the Eagle's Washington Bureau from 1922 until he left to help out Homer Cummings. In his old office in the Colorado Building, Henry Suydam was a neighbor of the Newark News's Correspondent...
...Rochelle, N. Y., brought to light after the discovery of Detroit's "twin" red-haired Pauline Taylors (TIME, March 1) were Brunette Elizabeth ("Betsy") Anderson, 17, and Elizabeth ("Betty") Anderson, 17. Born the same day, both weigh the same, went to school together, stand the same height, swim, ride horseback, play tennis and badminton. Rated the same I. Q., they are unrelated. Betsy plans to write, Betty to paint...
...November 1934, Mrs. Catharine Ulrich Kabatt was told to take a two-year leave from her duties as an Elmira, N. Y., high-school mathematics teacher because she was expecting a baby. Two months after her blue-eyed son was born, she unsuccessfully demanded to be put back to work. Although she is now teaching in a grade school, her lawyer husband Anthony has carried through the New York courts a suit for the pay she would have earned during her compulsory leave. Last week he carried it for the second time to the U. S. Supreme Court, which again...
...When King Edward abdicated last winter the consternation in Australia was no greater than that which would have prevailed last week had Braddles been "bowled for a duck egg" (put out with no runs). For Braddles to abdicate would simply be unthinkable. A cricket prodigy, Braddles, now 28, was born in Cootamundra, New South Wales, left school at 16 to devote all his time to cricket, has been the world's most famed cricketer since 1930. Cricket's greatest names before Braddles were England's W. G. Grace, who retired in 1911 after scoring some...