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...last formal performance of the season tonight when a selected group of 75 men will alternate with the orchestra at the Pops concert in providing the music for the evening. G. W. Woodworth '24, who has been acting conductor during the past year, in the absence of Dr. Davison, will lead the Club tonight...
Last week in Washington the commission met for two days to discuss means of attacking its problem. Under its young leader, F. Trubee Davison, son of the late President of the Red Cross and partner of J. P. Morgan, the commission has tried to recruit to its ranks men of prominence, men of ability and men with zeal to make a genuine effort for crime prevention. How well it has succeeded its roster shows: Herbert S. Hadley, former Governor of Missouri and onetime candidate for Vice President; Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War; Charles E. Hughes, recent Secretary...
...Percy A. Rockefeller was the first important one. He is now middle-aged (48), very tall, indeed taller than his deceased father, William, his cousin, John Davison Jr. (four years younger), or his revered uncle, John D. Sr.** Spectators noted his heavily tanned and freckled complexion, his horn-rimmed spectacles in their gold frame, his slanting forehead, his meticulously parted hair. He answered questions for the most part readily, always frankly, in a mild, almost diffident voice. One trick of his amused the attendants. He pinches his lips between thumb and forefinger every time he must reflect for a phrase...
...over the craft on an inspection tour, and with 45 companions waved goodby as the Chantier slipped out of dock. Going down the bay, a sleek yacht escorted the Chantier with her owner, Vincent Astor, aboard, and other Byrd-backers, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., Edsel Ford, F. Trubee Davison, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett. Tromso, Norway...
...Columbia in 1915 and several times visited both) the U. S. and Canada during the intervening years. It was while lecturing at Columbia in 1915 that he married his first American wife, Miss Henrietta S. Porter of Annapolis, who died in 1919. In 1921 he married Miss Mabel Davison of Manhattan, sister to the late Henry P. Davison, famed banker. He died at Mentone, French Riviera, universally honored among scholars and beloved on two continents for his warm, compelling charm...