Word: chanler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Armstrong Chaloner, ne Chanler, modern Maecenas, coiner of the famed phrase "Who's looney now?"* has figured more or less steadily in the public press for the past six years. Adjudged insane some 20 years ago, he spent some time in enforced residence at Bloomingdale Asylum (New York State), whence he escaped finally to Virginia, his home. A piquant touch was added by the fact that while he was legally sane in the State of Virginia, he was legally insane in the State of New York, where, undaunted, he was carrying on libel suits against various Manhattan newspapers...
William C. Chanler 1G.B., who rowed against Yale in the second University boat last year, was the victor in the Junior single sculls race, making the time of 8 minutes 15 seconds...