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...Mary Caperton Bowles Dale...
...alarm fire broke the monotony of Currier House's reading period Saturday night and destroyed a student's room in the Mary Caperton Bingham building, Marvin F. Lazerson, senior tutor in Currier House, said yesterday...
Helen Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman '33, Pulitzer prize-winning author, and Mary Caperton Bingham '28, newspaperwoman and civic leader, also attended the meeting. The three residences were named after these women...
...revolt was forming near Cap-Haitien, under an ambitious politico named Guillaume Sam. Admiral William B. Caperton, U.S.N., on the U.S.S. Washington, met Sam unofficially and offered him tacit support, urgently warning Sam not to "loot or burn down the cities." But once in office, Sam balked at signing a treaty for U.S. occupation of Haiti. Instead, he jailed and massacred 167 suspected revolutionaries-then panicked and fled for asylum to the French legation. A raging mob broke into the building, found Sam hiding under a bed, dragged him out, literally tore him limb from limb, and paraded through Port...
Died. William Banks Caperton, 86, oldest retired Admiral of the U.S. Navy, Commander of the Pacific Fleet in World War I, when he cleared German raiders from the South Atlantic and operated the naval patrol off South America. A diplomat as well as a fighter, he cruised on courtesy visits to the Latin American republics in 1919, won the praise of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt for being of "inestimable value" in strengthening U.S.-Latin American ties...