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...Bumstead's Compass...
Fact is the sun compass was invented for Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd by unassuming, expert Chief Cartographer Alfred H. Bumstead of the National Geographic Society. The worthy Admiral has publicly said that without it he could never have reached the Poles. Modest Cartographer Bumstead would never tell you this himself...
Oliver lives simply--his money is a responsibility, not an instrument for pleasure. He bestows lavish gifts on his cousin Mario because Mario enjoys money more than he. Oliver goes to Williams because his uncle, Professor Bumstead, thinks the small and democratic college is better for him than Harvard. He plays football, sensationally, but only because it is his duty to play for his fellows. He accompanies his father on a cruise because he thinks he should and actually enjoys himself somewhat, but refuses to spend additional time with his father in the Mediterranean because it is his duty...
Married. Miss Eleanor Bumstead, daughter of the late Professor Henry A. Bumstead and Mrs. Bumstead of Yale, to William Edward Stevenson, member 1924 U. S. Olympic team; in Battell chapel, Yale University, New Haven...
...Franchot, Y.; second, E. W. Mills, H.; third, R. H. Bumstead, Y. Time...