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Social life at the Park was restricted and proper. In 1886 the colonists had held the first "Autumn Ball." The sensation of that first party was young Griswold Lorillard and a few daring friends who wore tailless dress coats, "which suggested to the onlookers that the boys ought to have been put in strait jackets long ago." Who actually originated the dinner jacket in the U. S. has been a subject of heated argument ever since. Some say it began at a dance of one of the Chowder and Marching Clubs in the Bowery, when leaders of Manhattan...
Married. Kathrine Sarles Durstine, 20, youngest daughter of dynamic, Dakota-born Roy Durstine, famed Manhattan ad man; and James R. Griswold, 28, son of Dillard H. Griswold, banker; in Nashville...
Composer, musician, and able master of ceremonies, Professor W. Barton Leach introduced the faculty panel as the AAA, Associated Alleged Adults. They were Dean James Landis, Erwin N. Griswold, Professor Mary H. McGuire, Professor Milton ("poppa") Katz and Judge Calvert Magruder. The ladies represented the wives of the faculty...
Dean Landis was awarded by popular acclaim the prize for effort; Professor Griswold received the strainer for being under the most strain for the evening. For knifing the interlocutor, William Hardee received the dagger and Mrs. Maguire got the happy wooden hen. The grand prizes, sets of the most popular encyclopedia, the World almanac, went to Judge Magruder, Professor Griswold, John Richardson, and Mrs. Follansbee
Professor W. Barton Leach will preside. The faculty panel is made up of: Professor Erwin N. Griswold, Professor Milton Katz, Dean James M. Landis, faculty wife Mrs. John M. McGuire, and Judge Calvert Magruder, of the Federal Circuit Court and a member of the faculty...