Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed. Ottawa's handsome Major William ("Bill") Duncan Herridge, K. C., 42, winner of the D. S. O. Military Cross, and Brigade Majorship in the War, widower of Rose Fleck Herridge, granddaughter of the late John R. Booth who was Canada's richest man (lumber); to be Canadian Minister at Washington...
...Recently there were rumors that Clarence Dillon would retire from Dillon, Read & Co., on Jan. i. The garbled nature of these rumors (denied at the time) was revealed with the announcement that Duncan H. Read, son of the late William Augustus Read, has resigned. A year ago William Augustus Read Jr. retired. Now Dillon, Read & Co. is Readless...
...development to see the German dancer, Mary Wigman. The house sold out for her debut recital; five more performances were announced and a tour as far west as Chicago. Dancers say solemnly that Mary Wigman is the Greatest Influence of the modern dance. She is a follower of Isadora Duncan in that she repudiates the formal ballet and all its artificial patterns. But in her striving for freedom, for self-expression, she goes further than the Great Isadora whose dances were made to express great music. Wigman creates her dances first, chooses her own rhythms and then lets sounds...
...Charles A. Levine, millionaire junkman who flew the Atlantic in 1927 as Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin's passenger, was arrested and jailed in Vienna on a charge of conspiring to forge French coins of small denomination. His explanation: he was having some little medals made resembling French coins with which he was going to surprise his U. S. friends at Christmas. With him at the time of his arrest was his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll who subsequently fled to Paris...
Cross country men may enter the Gragg Richards handicap race for which there is a trophy, and the intramural cross-country run. Class football teams have already started practice under their respective coaches. I. R. Duncan 1G.B. has charge of the Seniors, A. W. Samborski '25, the Juniors, and B. H. Dorman '29, the Sophomores. The winning class team will receive medals and will play the Yale class team victors on November...