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...ended a career that might have been dictated by E. Phillips Oppenheim. New York first saw "Prince Edgar" nearly 40 years ago when he arrived flush with funds and cut a wide swathe through the leg o' mutton-sleeved Society of the period. He married Clare de Cosse Conger, niece of Edwin T. Conger of Ohio, onetime Minister to China. That did not last long. In 1911 Prince Edgar turned up in Vienna, but he talked too much about his relationship to the old Kaiser and was quietly ousted. By this time U. S. newspapers had it quite fixed...
Yale: Stroke--H. P. Shepard '33; 7, H. M. Brockfield, Jr. '33; 6, W. S. Garnsey III '33; 5, J. S. Atwood '34; 4, J. G. Zimmerman '33; 3, E. W. Stetson, Jr. '34; 2, J. M. Mertz '33; bow, R. M. Davis '33; cox, C. R. Conger...
...record set by his onetime teammate, Patrick Ryan. Leo Lermond won the mile race by a yard over his New York Athletic Club teammate Gene Venzke; behind them both came another New York A. C. runner, Frank Crowley. All three were far ahead of the defending champion, Ray Conger. Frank Wykoff ran the loo-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., a yard and a half ahead of Emmett Toppino of Loyola, three yards ahead of Eddie Tolan. But Tolan won the 220-yd. race in the fastest time ever made around a curved track, in a great finish against Ralph Metcalfe...
...mile in this race was enough to put him 20 yd. ahead at the wire. Another Pennsylvanian, Bill Carr, ran a dead heat with Johnny Lewis of Detroit City College in the 300-yd. race and won the runoff. In the 1,000-yd., Ray Conger had to beat George Bullwinkle, intercollegiate one-mile outdoor champion, and wise fans said he could not do it. They knew how Bullwinkle-a pacemaker as well as a finisher-liked to beat a finisher like Conger by getting so far ahead that no sprint would catch him. But this time Conger stuck...
...members who had just been elected to the society was also released. All of these men were chosen on the basis of the grades they made in the Harvard Law School. They are as follows: third year men: L. H. Arps, J. W. K. Johnson, Milton Schilback, J. G. Conger, J. D. Wood, W. J. Brennan, E. G. Jennings, Robertson Boney, Jr.; second year men: J. de Bruyn Kops, Jr., T. McP. Davis, F. L. Dewey. H. B. Johnson, Harold Levine, S. J. Liftin, J. B. Messitte, R. E. Mumford, Louis Newman, A. I. Schmalholz. J. J. Fine...