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...Illustrating the dangers of communication by telephone,"-and sent both clippings to old chum and fellow Republican National Committeeman, President William Henry Crocker of Crocker First National Bank of San Francisco (who arrived last week in Manhattan). It was revealed that for nearly 25 years, since they first met at the Bohemian Club's jolly grove near San Francisco, Pedagog Butler and Banker Crocker have been regaling each other across the continent, exchanging things they find amusing. Sometimes they send jokes, sometimes crank letters; but mostly clippings of those little boxed stories called "freaks"' which are the delight...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been awarded the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for great scientific achievement, according to an announcement made yesterday by Walter Russell, president of the Society. Dr. William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research was awarded the Society's second medal...
...cast is not yet entirely determined, but for the men's parts I. C. Martin '34, J. E. Beaumont '33, P. G. Hoffman '32, and J. S. Jennison '30 are definitely slated, while Rosemary McHugh, Betty Crocker, and Jane Mast will take three of the four women's parts...
...Author. Ludwig Lewisohn, fiery champion of his ego, is famed for his auto biographical novels. He once found him self in a $200,000 libel suit brought by his first wife ("Bosworth Crocker"), who thought she recognized herself in one of them (Mid-Channel). Author Lewisohn announced last fall he would write no more analytical novels. Short, stocky, pince-nezed, middleaged, he has a voice which is "deep, elaborate, studied." He has also written : Upstream, The Island Within, Mid-Channel, Stephen Escott...
...Washington last week in the new Fokker "flying wing" observation plane (TIME, Sept. 29) flew Pilot-Lieut. Harrison G. Crocker and Fokker Engineer Stephen A. Forberger, co-designer of the craft. Over the city's outskirts one of the Fokker's gasoline tanks ran dry, cutting both motors. Aware that Pilot Crocker, who had never flown the plane before, would not know what valve to turn. Engineer Forberger hastily clambered up through the cowling of his front cockpit and started back over the wing to direct him. Meanwhile the pilot who had no time to lower the plane...