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Lincoln Chadbourne Denton '29 of Houghton, Mich., was appointed Chairman of the regatta committee, and Francis Smith Linn '29 of South Zanesville, Ohio, and Edward Herbert Jr. '29 of Fall River were made members of the regatta committee...
...appointment of Lincoln Chadbourne Denton as sub-chairman of the Arts and Cuts Committee was announced yesterday. He is from Houghton, Mich., and prepared at Browne and Nichols. One more subchairman will be elected to the Arts and Cuts board within two weeks after the competition starts. It will be over on April 18, as will be those in the Editorial and Photographic divisions. The Business competition, however, will last until April...
Died. John Denton Pinkstone French, Earl of Ypres, 72, commander of the first British expeditionary force during the World War; in Deal, England, after an operation for appendicitis (see COMMONWEALTH...
...which the British Tommy called "Wipers"-and the Channel ports and helped to hold up the mighty advance of the German military machine. Marshal Ferdinand Foch has written of French: "In him Great Britain found a grand soldier. He kept his troops up to the level of Wellington." John Denton Pinkstone French was born in Kent of Irish parents. He began his career at an early age by joining the Navy, in which his father was a captain. Four years later, he transferred to the Army, joined the 19th Hussars. He rose steadily to the rank of a colonel, retired...
Field Marshal the Earl of Ypres who, as Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, commanded the British Expeditionary Force in France during 1914 and 1915, underwent a prolonged and serious operation. His ailment was unspecified. A series of bulletins pronounced his condition satisfactory...