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...Claymont...
John Jacob Raskob sold his million-dollar estate "Archmere" on the Dela ware River at Claymont, Del. to the Premonstratensian Fathers of St. Norbert College, Depere, Wis. A show place with a palatial manor house in which are five nurseries, the property will be made into a boys' preparatory school, named Archmere Academy. For a year the Raskobs have resided at their Centreville, Md. place. There the family occupies "Heart felt Hall." On the outside, beneath the window of each of the twelve children's rooms, is a medallion bearing the likeness of the occupant. The guest house...
...Candidate did not rashly claim Pennsylvania but did declare that Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut are "all right," and that "the tide has turned!" In Manhattan, betting odds dropped from 5 to 1 against the Derby to 3½ to 1. Prudent, the Candidate rested for a day at Claymont, Del., with Mr. and Mrs. John J. Raskob and eleven children. Then, unbedraggled, crisp and confident, the "bronzer"? trooped buoyantly...
...Author. Short, slim, quiet, Dillwyn Parrish lives in Claymont, Del., the young bachelor master of an old homestead, exchanging visits often with the sister whose bookishness revived his interest in life after a bad time...
...service include the following: Raymond Peacock Baldwin '16, of Brookline; Ervin Thayer Drake, Jr., '16, of Franklin, N. H.; Julian Langson Lathrop '18, of New Hope, Pa., whose death was erroneously reported a few days before the Easter recess; Robert Lowell Moore '18, of Cambridge; Dillwyn Parrish '18, of Claymont, Del.; John Kenneth Taylor Phillips '17, of Lawrence, L. I., N. Y.; Paul Tison '18, of New York, N. Y., and Bertram Williams '18, of Cambridge...