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Died. Louis Franklin Swift, 75, onetime President of Swift & Co. (packers), brother of Swift's present President Gustavus Franklin 2d, Board Chairman Charles Henry, Vice President Harold Higgins and Director George Hastings; after long illness; in Chicago...
...best atmosphere for students is where something is in the making," stated Harold Westergaard, newly appointed dean of the Engineering School, speaking before a meeting of the Engineering Society last night. "A university can do more for students if it is an intellectual center where arts and sciences flourish...
Taking off from New York's Floyd Bennett Field with Co-Pilot John S. Lambie in a twin-motored Lockheed Electra which once belonged to Harold S. Vanderbilt, he buzzed uneventfully to England, landed at North Weald. 15 mi. from London, to get his bearings, then went on to Croydon. His time: 21 hr. 3 min. His purpose: to fly pictures of the Coronation back to the U. S. He did not take with him newsreels of the Hindenburg disaster because London did not want that tragedy to punctuate its Coronation gaiety...
...Harold Hart Crane was born in 1899 in Warren, Ohio, only child of comfortably middle-class parents. His mother and father were always quarreling, separating, making up; little Harold was an agonized and helpless onlooker. He was a sturdy child but extremely sensitive. When he was nine his parents parted; his mother went to a sanatorium and Harold was sent to Cleveland to live with his grandmother. Passionately interested in poetry and not much interested in school, he made few friends there; but he landed his first poem (in a Greenwich Village magazine) when he was 16. When his mother...
...Harold M. Westergaard, newly appointed dean of the Graduate Engineering School, will be the guest of honor at a meeting of the Engineering Society Tuesday at 7.30 o'clock in Adams House...