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...most vivid memories of Robert House Colley is that of ripping off rapid-fire calculations for Battery A of the 307th Field Artillery during the battle of St. Mihiel, standing behind some ruins with rain pouring down on his maps and tissue paper tracers while a private tried ineffectually to hold a pup tent over his head. Second Lieutenant Colley retained his passion for mathematics, returned from the War to put it at the service of finance in the treasurer's office of Philadelphia's Atlantic Refining Co. Last week, on the retirement of William Mitchell Irish...
...when he rolls up his sleeves to polish off Mr. Shaw, the famous Irish wit is made to look like a second rate effusion of Mr. Colley Cibber. Shaw, "has the brain of a juvenile Machiavelli superposed on a crybaby, philistine, middle-class soul... His brain is a half-inch layer of champagne poured over a bucket of Methodist near-beer." All Mr. De Casseres sees in Shaw is the mountebank who jigs for money, the Barnum of the drama, and nothing else. After reading this book the Shabian bubble is pierced...
Denied Divorce. Christian Arthur Wellesley, fourth Earl of Cowley, actor, descendant of Richard Colley Marquess Wellesley (famed Governor General of India, 1797-1805; Duke of Wellington's brother); from the Countess, onetime May Picard, Manhattan chorus girl; at London...
...pound class: O. R. Lindersmith won by decision over Colley (Brown...
...pound class.--A. A. Cock '18 won from Colley (B.) on decision...