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Harvard substitutions: Sigourney, Spang, Hudner, Doyle, Edmonds, Hughes, Harris, Colton, Maloney, Stearns, Boughton, Stensrud, Rosenau, Connors, Carman, O'Neill, Rodgers, Powell, Bahn, Emmons, Lindsay, Brady, Sawyer, Stone, Warden...
Suggestion. In Bettendorf, Iowa, Used-Car Dealer C. W. Boughton stuck a sign on one of his autos: "Grab It Now!" Cops were soon hunting the thief who did exactly that...
Epical and Epoch-Making. The Album contains almost no text. Prolific Historian Adams, author of The Epic of America, Empire on the Seven Seas and more than 20 other volumes, limits himself to brief captions. Typical example is his comment on Boughton's painting of the Pilgrims going to church: "This painting is enshrined in the hearts of Americans, and it seems fitting to reproduce it. The men carried their muskets to church, placing them on a gunrack. In the center of the picture is seen the preacher with his Bible. The costume is correct for the period...
Edward P. Allis, Russell R. Ayres, Frederick S. Bacon, Roland M. Baker, Jr., Philip Barnet, Francis J. Bassett, Bancroft Beatley, Charles S. Bolster, Frederick J. Bradlee, Millar Brainard, William B. Breed, Henry P. Briggs, Frederick W. Brune, Francis W. Capper, Boughton Cobb, Robert C. Cobb, Charles R. Codman, Kenneth J. Conant, James F. Conway, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Donald C. Cottrell, Paul G. Courtney; Henry DeFord, Jr., Eben Henry McB. Parker, William A. Parker, Henry Parkman. Jr., Ronald L. Redmond, Edward Reynolds, Junius A. Richards, John Rock, H. W. Dwight Rudd, Philip H. Sherwood, David R. Sigourney, Joseph P. Spang...
Professorial, omni-opinionated Walter Boughton Pitkin, author, at 54, of Life Begins at Forty (1932), was a "guest expert" on Canada Dry's Information Please program, sat clam-mum throughout the entire half-hour quiz. Afterwards, he explained apologetically why he had not opened his mouth: he is hard of hearing, heard not a single question...