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...Cautious candidates commune with Mr. Roudybush for four months before attempting them. Confident candidates take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece for the privilege. His school, now housed in a three-story Georgetown mansion, was founded in an apartment in 1907 by the late Angus MacDonald Crawford with one student. Since then nearly 75% of U. S. career diplomats have "boned" for their examinations with Crawford or Roudybush...
Married. Anton Lang Jr., faculty member at Georgetown University, son of the onetime "Christus" of the Oberammergau Passion Play; and Clara Mayr, this year's Oberammergau "Magdalene," in Oberammergau. Mrs. Lang's role will be filled by Fraülein Ritta Kosch...
From Columbia, S. C., Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood dispatched two constables "to see what can be done about the nudist situation" on Cat Island, off Georgetown...
...county agents bumping over back roads inspecting crops, talking to farmers and smalltown bankers, the Crop Reporting Board in Washington last week received the year's most important reports. Led by William Forrest Callander, a jovial, blue-eyed gentleman who was a dirt farmer before he studied law at Georgetown, the Board took its secrets into a room high up in the Agriculture building, locked itself in until its tabulations were completed and its guesses made. Frosted glass windows prevented so much as an eyewink to the outside world. In the centre of another room six or eight newshawks stood...
...applying. Last year Ross acted as president of the Gridiron Club. For years he had helped to stage-manage its shows, with the aid of a stop watch to see that no skit, no song lagged beyond its allotted time. Today he has one son at Dartmouth, another at Georgetown...