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...Most Brilliant man in his Yale class ('15). He was both football player and chairman of the Literary Magazine, class poet and captain of water polo. He rose in the Massachusetts bar, but some years ago renounced the law for poetry, which he writes intermittently on his farm in Conway, Mass. FORTUNE employs him on its editorial staff. He has lived much in Europe, is a great friend of Poet Stephen Vincent Benét (John Brown's Body), and Ernest Hemingway. But, vigorous, busy, disciplined, he does not fit the expatriate scene. Other books: The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, Streets...
...lavish use of slanguage, the late Jack Conway is largely responsible. Conway, once a professional baseball player, once a streetcar conductor, was employed when the paper was in its kicking, yelping infancy. A swift writer, he compounded the argot of the ball park, the slum and the green room, helped make possible such journalistic enigmas as: "Crusading Tab Bailies Biz Into Rough Joints," "Ruined by Grift, Carnival Goods Men Turn to Bridge Prize Trade," "Wellman No Like, He Walks...
...ripped out bell-cords, they were reported to the Cambridge police by frightened passengers. Their cars were shunted off into the subway's yards. There detectives piled them into patrol wagons, took them to the police station where their names were recorded. One engineering Freshman, a Henry T. Conway of Lowell, Mass., was discovered with a bit of bell-rope in his pocket. He was later fined...
...book tells about. He was mentioned in despatches, decorated with the Military Cross. After the War he finished at Cambridge, joined the Navy, is now Instructor Lieutenant Commander, H. M. S. Emperor of India. Other books: Round the World with Battle Cruisers; St. Ange, the Adventure of Richard Conway Bowen; Beginner's Luck...
...summary: HARVARD 1933 M.I.T. 1933 Fitch, g. g., Mayer Vandermark, r.f.b. r.f.b. Mohr Hasgood, l.f.b. l.f.b., Hans Denison, r.h.b. r.h.b., Conway, Keasler Waters, Heard, Crossman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Snow Martin, l.h.b. l.h.b. Bateman Lindsey, r.o.f. r.o.f., Flint Eaton, r.i.f. r.i.f., Way Gallaway, c.f. c.f., Sinkweic Schumacher, l.i.f. l.i.f., Thumm, McCormack Williams, l.o.f. l.o.f., Handley...