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Married. Mrs. Jeannette P. Colgate, recent wife of Henry A. Colgate (soap), of Manhattan; to Byron V. Dexter, poet, of Morristown, N. J.; secretly, several months ago, following an introduction at amateur theatricals. Mr. Colgate, after a conference with his wife and Poet Dexter in Paris, agreed to a divorce, will pay his onetime wife $6,000 yearly to support their three children, $6,000 yearly for herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Junior Dexter, J. M. Galanis '29, M. V. Copeland '29, H. H. Gledhill '29, R. S. Winslow '29, H. B. Wells...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS TENNIS CHAMPIONS WILL ENTER TOURNAMENT | 5/23/1928 | See Source »

...winners of the Senior, Junior and Freshman class tennis tournaments were announced last night. F. W. P. Lorenzen '28, S. O. Dexter '29, and J. D. Evans '31, are the victors in their respective classes K. B. Daggett '30 has already been announced as the Sophomore court champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS TENNIS CHAMPIONS WILL ENTER TOURNAMENT | 5/23/1928 | See Source »

...Robert Mearns Yerkes, famed Yale psychologist, visited her in 1926; gave her many intelligence tests; was impressed by her clarity of thought, her apparent willingness to cooperate. Other scientists were equally interested. A year and a half ago, Dr. Adolph Hans Schultz, anatomist of Johns Hopkins University, wrote to Dexter Fellowes of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, asking for Miss Congo's body when she died. Life then seemed just beginning for the growing gorilla girl. She lived on the Ringling estate waiting to grow up; then to step into a feature part on the Ringling program. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Congo's End | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Styling himself "Lord," Timothy Dexter crowned a haddock-hawker his poet laureate with a wreath of parsley. He drank copiously, published incessant screeds of his own and built a house which bristled with minarets and was approached through a triumphal arch surmounted with wooden statues of heroes, from Adam to Timothy Dexter, at whom, as at "'Bossy" Gillis, the world gaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In Newburyport | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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