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Many a time Son-in-Law Charles John Boettiger (pronounced Bott-igger) had stood in that same office along with those same newshawks listening to Mr. Early's pronouncements. A strapping 6 ft. 2, he was just a plain high-school-educated newshawk covering police courts, bankers' conventions, scientific meetings for the Chicago Tribune until one day in 1930. Then another Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, was shot in Chicago. Publisher McCormick of the Tribune put Boettiger on the case. He stuck to it, wrote the Tribune's stories on it, right up to the capture and conviction...
Founded in 1810, Lawrenceville was reorganized in 1884 by the late James Cameron Mackenzie, who gave it one of the first U. S. "house plans." Lean years lay behind the school when Mather Almon Abbott took its headmastership in 1919. Halifax born and Oxford bred, "The Bott" had taught President Roosevelt at Groton, had been crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, was big, ruddy, firm-willed. At Lawrenceville he upped scholarship and enrollment, turned everybody out for sports, started rowing and polo, opened a Lower School for boys under 14, established scholarships for British boys. His biggest & best jobs...
Lawrenceville knew ''The Bott's" shoes would be hard to fill. Last week trustees picked a man to make the try. He was Allan Vanderhoef Heely. 37, tall, husky, popular assistant dean at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Son of a Manhattan banker, Head Master Heely prepared at Andover, went to Yale. There he was an editor of the Record, Junior Prom committee chairman, Student Council member and voted the most popular man in his class. Five years in Manhattan convinced him that he was cut out for neither the advertising nor the dry goods business. Back...
...Bystander was considering quitting the Great Eight group to start a weekly of his own, an illustrated smartchart something like the New Yorker, to be named either The Londoner or St. James's. Instead the publishers let Editor Beaumont take charge of the Graphic, replacing Editor Alan John Bott...
Monetary Internationalism, Said Gates McGarrah, reviewing the Great Depression Year: "Events have shown to what extent our monetary systems, bott great and small, have become interdependent. Internationalism in monetary matters is now not merely a theory but an accomplished fact! The tidal wave of uncertainty and fear . originated in Austria, swept quickly through Hungary and Germany . . . flowed onward to Britain and the Scandinavian countries backwashing into the United States, and carried unusual demands on the American gold supply and credit system...