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...successor. Now 38, Paul Cruikshank worked his way through Yale by covering University news for New York and Boston papers, managed the freshman swimming team, found time to win two Latin prizes. After graduation he taught at Gunnery and Hopkins, before starting his own school. In 1923 he married Edith Fitch, has one son, three daughters. As conservative as Horace Dutton Taft in educational policy, he will introduce no frills at Taft. 'keep it a stronghold of Latin, mathematics, plain hard work. His younger brother Harold, a onetime Taft student who graduated from Yale in 1931, inherits...
...Kurt (Gregory Gave). This time she asked for a divorce. Kurt, she felt sure, would extirpate the middle age she dreaded so, and which Sam seemed so ready to accept. A footsore, lonely Sam was being comforted in Italy by the platonic favors of a friendly expatriate named Edith Cortright (Mary Astor) when Kurt's mother told Fran why the old wives of young husbands are invariably miserable. From the automatic habit of more than 20 years Sam resumed the job of taking care of Fran, rebelled at the last moment, went back to Mrs. Cortright...
...three desks sat Jenkintown's (Pa.) Edward V. Sherry, Chicago's local prodigies Norman Saksvig and Edith Kohn. At another sat Cortez W. Peters, a 220-lb. Washington, D. C. Negro, wearing a brown silk polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year...
...Brundage's other case was Mark Weston. Mary Edith Louise Weston was born in England 30 years ago. Among Englishwomen she was the best shotputter from 1924 to 1930, the best javelin thrower in 1927. Miss Weston had a close friend, named Alberta Bray. Two months ago Dr. L. R. Broster of London's Charing Cross Hospital performed two operations to complete Mary Weston's metamorphosis into masculinity. Said Dr. Broster: "Mr. Mark Weston, who was always brought up as a female, is male, and should continue life as such." As to whether Mark Weston could have...
...least remarkable feature of the volume was that Edith Sitwell should have written it. The oldest member of an industrious literary family that includes Osbert (Before the Bombardment, Miracle on Sinai) and Sacheverell (Doctor Donne and Gargantua, All Slimmer in a Day), she has previously been best known for her calm, highbrow aloofness, her volumes of verse, her idiosyncratic individualism, her interest in famed British eccentrics, her biography of Alexander Pope. Now 49, she is tall (over 6 ft.), blonde, unmarried, with straight classic features. Readers who know her previous books will be surprised at the interest in social conditions...