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...last week with the arrival in Ottawa of commissions from Australia and New Zealand. Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation was J. V. Fairbairn, Minister of Civil Aviation, a redheaded air fighter of World War I. Chief representative for Canada is Lieut. Colonel William Avery Bishop, V. C., honorary Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now 45, short, chubby, softspoken, he scarcely looks today like the fierce-flying Ace Bishop who shot down...
...Marshall Field, Arthur B. Hancock, Robert A. Fairbairn. *Only one other U. S.-bred horse had ever won this 133-year-old race: the late Speculator James R. Keene's Foxhall in 1882. ?At that time the thoroughbred was just beginning to be established as a breed in England. *All thoroughbreds have the same birthday, January 1. So that foals may be dropped as soon after January 1 as possible (a mare carries her foal eleven months), the thoroughbred mating season is around the first of February...
...fact that Sheriff Fairbairn, known for many years as the Grand Old Man of Middlesex County, has died will not seem to be of great importance to the average Harvard student, but when he realizes that his degree cannot be legal unless the High Sheriff opens the ceremonies, he will understand the significant part this kindly old gentleman has played in Harvard life for the last thirty three years. At every commencement since 1899 he has donned his blue court coat with gold buttons, his white waistcoat, and top hat, and has marched in the annual June academic procession...
This opening ceremony is required by the charter of the University or else there are no degrees. It has been carried out by Mr. Fairbairn and his nineteen predecessors for every year since the establishing of the office of High Sheriff...
...Fairbairn is famous for numerous other reasons besides his ceremonial duties at the Harvard commencement. Some of the most famous of New England's outlaws and murderers have been placed in his care, and he has been present at every execution except one since he became sheriff. In his collection of lethal weapons and souvenirs of notorious criminals and the crimes they have perpetrated throughout New England, is a splicing hook to make the noose fit more snugly around the victim's neck, and the famous letter given to Sheriff Fairbairn by a condemned murderer just before he went...