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...report that the horses stabled near the Stadium are soon to be "liquidated has engendered a good deal of anticipation and watchfulness on the part of the Cowie gastronomes. Perhaps current OWI publicity will break down their traditional resistance to Dobbin as a victual. It's significant to note, however, that the Provisions course does not indicate the quantity of hoss meat to be stowed for an indefinite cruise, for 100 men, implying that this commodity still lacks official Navy sanction...
Since the death of its first rector, Rev. James Dobbin, Episcopalian Shattuck has been chiefly headed by laymen. Last week, to replace retired Headmaster James S. ("The Bull") Guernsey, Shattuck inducted a clergyman. He was Rev. Donald G. Henning, 33, pipe-smoking, resonant rector of Christ Church, St. Paul. Not an Old Shad but a Toledo-bred onetime Roman Catholic, Shattuck's new head helped work his way through Kenyon College by fiddling in a band, cut his missionary teeth in South Dakota's Rose bud Indian Reservation, where he had four white communicants on his 110-mile...
...Edsel Ford. The ballet was written-it has songs and dialogue-by Edward Mabley of the Teague organization, who never once forgot that two men impersonating a horse are always good for a laugh. A Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots it featly while such top-notch Caravan dancers as Marie Jeanne and Nicki Magallanes mime the rise of the Ford-often...
...glamorous horse present. But in the contest for work horse with longest service, Anna, being an artist, was disqualified. The award (a leather feed bag) went to Tootsie, who has pulled a pickle wagon through The Bronx for 15 years. "All work and no play," says Mr. Hertz, "makes Dobbin a dull...
Varnum Lansing ("Wilkie") Collins is Princeton's secretary; Frederick Leroy Hutson its onetime registrar. Adam Leroy Jones is director of admissions at Columbia; George Dobbin Brown was librarian at General Theological Seminary. Princeton teachers but not "preceptor guys" were Scientists Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Owen Willans Richardson. Variously famed are Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham (Yaleman), Novelist Maxwell Struthers Burt, Songman Sigmund Spaeth and his crew-coaching, English-teaching half-brother John Duncan, Donald Clive Stuart, adviser of the Triangle Club, Charles William Kennedy, retired chairman of the Committee on Athletics...