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Lieut.-Colonel Stewart S. Giffin (West Point, '13), Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. A., stood trial before a general courtmartial. On and behind a pine table were twelve sabres, twelve senior officers. The court had to consider charges that Colonel Giffin: 1) did "maliciously knock the hat off the head of one Joseph Currao [a trucker], thereby precipitating a drunken brawl ... to the scandal and disgrace of the military service"; 2) did visit a residence at Goshen, N. Y., and, being refused admittance, "did then and there willfully create a shameful disturbance ... by trespassing ... in his stocking feet...
Gaunt, bumptious Colonel Giffin and his wife took a fancy to sycophantic Lieut. Smith and his wife, took them into the Giffin home at Goshen early last year. Deprived though they were of the conveniences of an army post, the Giffins, Smiths, et al. worked, drank, played in traditional fashion. Known throughout the army for his capacity, his peculiar humor and his misadventures, Colonel Giffin was the card of a clique who thought the hot foot was good fun and snatched hats from fellow barflies. Lieut, and Mrs. Smith lived with and on the Giffins for three months, incurred...
...Tuscon, Arizona, and the Charlotte Greene Scholarship to D. G. Friend 1M., of Missouri Valley, Iowa. Each of the following first year Medical School students received George Haven Scholarships: L. M. Bell, of Dozier, Alabama; A. W. Cowan, of Bristol, Tennessee; E. J. Croce, of Worcester; L. A. Giffin, of West Hartford, Connecticut; M. T. Gilmour, of Wilmington, North Carolina; J. H. Grindlay, of Youngstown, Chio; D. T. Hall, of Seattle, Washington; G. M. Jorgensen, of Minden, Nebraska; C. D. Roberts, of East Boston; J. E. Robertson, of Santa Monica, California; D. A. Sunderland, of Rome, Georgia; W. L. Wallbank...
President Charles Giffin Pease of the Non-Smokers' Protective League of America, 76, through whose efforts smoking was prohibited in New York subways in 1909, adopted Mrs. A. Audrey Ulric Fiedler, 46, wife of a Newark, N. J. realtor. Henceforth she will call herself Audrey Pease Fiedler. Explained President Pease: "Last May the dear lady was virtually near death. She had been in the care of doctors and was being drugged to death. I was brought in and she was instantly healed. I discovered that what she missed was the spiritual side of life...
Columbia-A. M. Price '97, Law; I. Ross '96. Arts; A. R. Lesinsky '96, Arts; G. O. Seward '98, Mines; I. Giffin '99, Arts...