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Crew N--M. R. Brownell, Jr. '30, stroke; L. W. Dickey '30, 7; A. N. Webster '31, 6; M. M. Johnson, Jr. '31, 5; J. W. Hallowell '31, 4; T. E. Armstrong '32, 3; Cyrus Wood '32, 2; bow, R. I. McKesson...
Editorship. When Edward Bok went to the Ladies' Home Journal in 1889, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis knew he had hired a crusading editor. Once he enlisted the aid of Dancers Vernon & Irene Castle to help stamp out the pernicious tango, turkey trot, bunny hug, supplanting them with the more sedate polka, gavotte and schottische. Evangelically he tried to keep drinking scenes from the fiction of his publication. He engaged a doctor to give advice to young mothers through the pages of the Journal. Some 90,000 babies were said to have been thus magazine-reared. Of his trials and triumphs...
Thus did Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, a stranger to steel men, enter a business which was no less strange to him. Once in, he stayed in; acquired a controlling interest in many another steel company; created one of those vague but formidable entities known as an interest. Steel men, surveying the various steel companies included in the Eaton steel interests, began to predict a merger that would leave United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel no longer so pre-eminently first and second largest steel companies that the position of third largest carried with it only a statistical distinction...
...Other famed 79ers: Frank Presbrey (advertising), Trustee Cyrus Hall McCormick (Board Chairman of International Harvester Co.): Trustee Edward Wright Sheldon (Manhattan lawyer); onetime Princeton Dean William Francis Magie; the late financier Cleveland Hoadley Dodge; the late famed Judge Alfred Salem Niles of Baltimore; the late Banker Trustee Parker Douglas Handy of Manhattan; Robert Harris McCarter, onetime (1903-08) Attorney-General of New Jersey; the late Peter Joseph Hamilton of Mobile, author, onetime (1913-21) Judge of Porto Rican District Court...
...Roberts 4E.S., S. C. Robinson '30, John deRoode '33, F. W. Stetson '30, De Witt Stetten Jr. '30, G. A. Thow ocC, R. R. Walcott '31, C. H. Watson '30, R. S. Watson '32, F. V. Weeks '30, E. E. Wendell '32, Cyrus Wood '32, H. deW. Wood '30, L. D. Wood '31, M. W. Ware '02 as graduate secretary...