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Hopefully the reporters put it all down. For days they had been following the dewy-eyed romance of George Lowther 3rd, 30, Yaleman. insurance broker, cafe socialite, and Eileen Herrick, 20, only daughter of stern Walter R. Herrick, onetime Park Commissioner of New York City. George wanted to marry Eileen. The Herricks did not want Eileen to marry George. Eileen could not be reached to find out what she wanted. So, George, claiming that the Herricks were holding Eileen a prisoner against her will, got from Justice Wasservogel a writ of habeas corpus demanding that the father produce the girl...
Stronger Than 1914. The wisdom of a cautious, controlled war economy, and the economic strength which Britain this time brings into the fight, were assayed last week by William Burton Burton-Baldry, London broker, in his lively Fortnightly Review...
...Broker Burton-Baldry further noted that British imports of Empire cotton have risen 300% since 1914. And that Britain in 1913-18 imported 52% of her wheat from the U. S., whereas today she need import none from outside the Empire...
...current impression, Sid doesn't spend his days leaning over a washtub and I don't do the ironing," said Partner Shields, kidded by fellow men-about-town. Nevertheless, Socialites Wood and Shields-one the owner of a California gold mine and the other a Broadway insurance broker-have not yet missed a day at the laundry. Last week Partner Wood entrained for California on his first washtub business trip. At Santa Monica he will open a branch laundry, to be managed by Tennist Frankie Parker...
...lawyers are Grenville Clark '03, and Charles Allerton Coolidge '17. Roger Irving Lee '02, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene at Harvard from 1919 to 1924, is the physician. William Henry Claflin '15, a broker and antiquarian, is the present Treasurer. Senior Fellow and big-time business man is Henry Lee Shattuck '01. Henry James '99, author of "Charles W. Eliot", Pulitzer Prize biography in 1930, completes the roll...