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When he was a Dartmouth undergraduate, Hamilton's new 39-year-old president, William Harold Cowley, crusaded as editor of the Dartmouth against class fights and other hallowed horseplay, induced the college to re-study and eventually change its curriculum. His classmates voted that he had "done most for Dartmouth," was "most likely to succeed." From Dartmouth, husky Bill Cowley, who had taken a crack at newspapering and industrial personnel work before graduation, went to the Bell Telephone Laboratories and then to University of Chicago, where he had charge of vocational guidance and placement. Since 1929 he has been...
Second U. S. name was that of Hollywood's Jon Cowley, who composes when he is not doing the whistling for Walt Disney's cinema cartoons. What struck listeners most about Composer Cowley's tricky "Crazy House" Suite was its orchestration, and that was not by Composer Cowley...
Manager Art Ross hardly opened his mouth. Such Bruin stalwarts as Eddie Shore, Bill Cowley, Cooney Weiland, and Gordon Pettinger were absent. Even Tiny Thompson didn't seem to care how many times the puck was shot past him. Rather he played the clown most the time and purposely left the net undefended on many occasion to engage in mad scrambles several feet out. At one time he carried the puck to center ice before losing it. At the time someone mentioned that Tiny was once the fastest member of the Bruins on skates. He did pretty well today even...
Down the centuries the name Morrice became Moris, Morres, Morys, then changed to Morris before the present Lord Numeld was born in Cowley. His identified ancestors include mayors, aldermen, country squires, judges, surgeons. Nuffield's father was a Hurst's Grammar School man, but the great philanthropist himself attended only the village school. Hurst's Grammar School never ranked with Eton, but Nuffield many years ago bought it and converted it into his motor firm's offices. Now he owns it, and no 011 Etonian's son owns Eton. For his home he bought...
Married, Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 63, oldtime prizefighter, lately a Ford Motor Company policeman, for the ninth time, to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 44; in Rushville...