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...Boston-born, Davis Wilson at 20 went to Vermont as an assistant to the attorney general in a crime crusade, was set upon and stabbed by thugs, killed one of them. Later in Washington he was "assistant" for four years to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain of the U. S. Senate. In 1905 he turned up in Philadelphia to fight the Vare machine, became Secretary of an independent Republican group backed by Owen Wister, Owen J. Roberts, and William C. Bullitt, father of the present U. S. Ambassador to Russia. In 1912 with Princeton's late Bill Roper...
...Bertie" Nevin was born in 1862, son of a druggist and newspaper proprietor. Naming him was an inspiration. "High-strung" as a child, he grew up to look like his name. He took his first music lessons at 8, published his first piece at 11. He married Anne Paul, a childhood friend who bore him two children. During his short life, Nevin studied continuously in the U. S. and Europe, turned out a constant stream of songs, piano pieces and small instrumental numbers?parlor music in tune with the times which brought him increasing royalties. An able pianist...
...York-born John Mitty, onetime bishop of Salt Lake City, succeeds San Francisco's well-beloved Archbishop Joseph Hanna whom he assisted as coadjutor for three years before the ailing archbishop retired (TIME, March 18). Businesslike Archbishop Mitty's first act last week was to demonstrate his concern for training priests. He announced he would devote a purse given him by his clergy to repairing St. Patrick's Seminary...
...Morgan has two sons, Junius Spencer, 43, and Henry Sturgis ("Harry"'), 34. By last week's division Son Junius apparently becomes heir to the banking tradition, Son Harry to the securities tradition. Born in London, Harry Morgan married Charles Francis Adams' daughter Catherine one week after graduation from Harvard in 1923. He went promptly to work and was admitted to the firm six years later along with two other sons of partners?Thomas Stilwell Lament and Henry Pomeroy Davison. Harry Morgan is youthful in appearance but by reputation he has the money-making drive of his late grandfather...
Engaged. Lorenz Iversen, sixtyish, Danish-born president of Pittsburgh's moneymaking Mesta Machine Co. (TIME, March 4), widower, father of five; and one Fleda Foust, fortyish, of Pittsburgh...