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Announcement of the appointing of three chairmen for Freshman Red Book committees was made yesterday by John L. Donnell, editor of the Red Book. John D. Edgerton, of Ithaca, New York, Robert J. Glaser, of University City, Missouri, and Joseph S. Stern, Jr., of Cincinnati, Ohio, were named to head the activities, literary, and sports boards respectively...
Less brutal was the conduct of slangy Able Seaman Jerry Edgerton: "I kept thinking about that poem 'The Boy Stood On The Burning Deck.' Finally my bunk pals shook me out of it and we decided to go overboard. A couple of girls came up and asked?polite but excited?if we'd mind their going along with us. I said. 'Sure, help yourself to the Atlantic and jump in.' When we were in the water I don't know what happened to one of the girls but when the other seemed about ready to give up I said. 'Come...
...seen much since the inauguration, was Son-in-law Curtis B. Dall. Broker Dall did not even appear at the White House during the prolonged stay of Mrs. Dall (''America's Sweet-heart") and their children "Sistie" & "Buzzie." Last week Curtis Dall and John J. Edgerton dissolved their two-month-old Wall Street brokerage house. Mr. Dall became a partner in Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider...
...Gore, was appointed director of air regulation; Carroll J. Cone of Arkansas was appointed director of aeronautical development. Rex Martin, onetime secretary to Illinois' Representative Keller, is new director of airways; John H. Geisse of Madison, Wis. is supervising aeronautics inspector. Old-time Mail Pilot James Clark Edgerton was appointed Mr. Mitchell's executive assistant for aeronautics...
...Author. Robin Edgerton Spencer, 34, discovered Henry James at 27, still thinks The Ambassadors "the loveliest novel" he knows. Born in Ogden, Utah, son of a train despatcher, he left school at 10 to work in a department store, clerked in various offices for 18 years. Then he started school again, on winter evenings at Washington's George Washington University. He spent his summer nights for four years writing The Lady Who Came to Stay. When he sent the unsolicited MS to Publisher Knopf he enclosed a self-addressed return wrapper. The wrapper was not used. Author Spencer now lives...