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Members of Harvard '21 were generally too young for World War I and too old for World War II (only five classmates lost their lives in combat), so perhaps it's not surprising that there are few politicians among its ranks. Still there is Powers Hapgood (d., 1949), who completed Harvard in three years so he could spend his senior year working in iron and coal mines, railroad yards and Chicago slaughter houses. Hapgood went on to become a leader of the United Mine Workers, a defeated Socialist candidate for Governor of Indiana, a major organizer...
Best and most characteristic of the stories is The Fall and Rise of Mrs. Hapgood. An English matron, shocked to learn of her seemingly unassailable husband's chronic infidelities, looks long at herself and is repelled by what she sees: something between a nanny and a Girl Guide. She takes on a new face, a new wardrobe, a lover ("Why not have fun?"), and learns to fight for her real life "like a sane animal that wants to survive." Her husband, she realizes, had wanted her merely as a mother; her lover, she feels, is making an honest woman...
...company shut off the current in the building," Reuther said later, "and it became so cold that it was unbearable. Powers Hapgood, the organizer, and myself crawled on our bellies along the railroad tracks to go beyond the Army lines, and told state officials that the men planned to start fires in an attempt to keep warm. The heat was turned on and the lights were turned off. Again we went out and reported to officials that the men planned to make torches of oil-soaked waste rags. The lights were lighted again." After 44 days, the U.A.W...
...wanted. He liked the job. He also liked his farm in Winsted, Conn., which had a lot of shade maples and easy chairs under them. But last week, 57-year-old Walter Davenport became editor of Collier's, the eleventh in a line which has included Norman Hapgood, Finley Peter Dunne and Mark Sullivan. His immediate predecessor, Henry La Cossitt, was out after just two years; the brass thought he was tightening Collier's free-swinging ways too much...
...headed, bumptious, 22-year-old sculpture student from Manhattan's East Side collected $400 for illustrating a book by Hutchins Hapgood. On this, he bought a ticket to Paris, where during his first few weeks...