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...average Harvardman, Roscoe Pound is a detached intellect with a round, cheery face and a green eyeshade, seated in the centre of a huge horseshoe desk, periodically emitting pithy dicta. Last week the intellect emitted a dictum of unusual interest: one year hence Roscoe Pound will resign as dean of the Harvard Law School. Reported Harvard's pressagent: "Dean Pound will continue to hold the Carter Professorship of Law. He explained that he wished to devote more of his time to writing, particularly to completing a book on jurisprudence...
Handsome, 34-year-old Tom Corcoran, protege of Felix Frankfurter, is more to the President than a brilliant and useful young legalite. He is also a charming, cultured, liberal Harvardman whose ability to sing and accompany himself on accordion and piano has won the White House heart. It was, therefore, a breath-bated moment when beefy, domineering Chairman O'Connor began his investigation last week by barking in response to Tom Corcoran's request for a question...
...suppers while they wait. In the $2 seats early-dining socialites sit comfortably on cushions hawked at every entrance. But informality prevails at Forest Park performances. The popcorn sale is heavy. Soft-drink men stalk the aisles. St. Louis expects much this year of Producer Laurence Schwab. Boston-born Harvardman whose Broadway record shines. Producer Schwab will follow the established "Muny" pattern, change operas every Monday during the twelve-week season.* Teresina was a sterile, tuneless start last week but the direction at least was blameless. While Schwab's pretty wife amazed St. Louis by playing golf in scanty...
...Bangkok thick-lipped, domineering Premier Phya Bahol promptly sent emissaries to offer the Throne to childless Prajadhipok's 11-year-old nephew, elf-faced Prince Ananda Mahidol, whose late father, a loyal Harvardman, resided for years in Cambridge's Brattle Inn. Last week Elfin Prince Ananda was at school in Lausanne, Switzerland when the Siamese Minister to Paris arrived to tell his mother that her son may be King of Siam...
...Publisher Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, graduated from Yale in 1907. That year a bright young Chicagoan named Francis Augustus Bonner graduated from Harvard. Yaleman Blair worked in Chicago's Northern Trust Co., famed training ground for brokers and bankers, then joined Lee, Higginson & Co. Harvardman Bonner became financial editor of the defunct Chicago Evening Post, a railroad statistician, then also joined Lee, Higginson. Last week Mr. Blair, 50, and Mr. Bonner, 49, teamed together to form the underwriting and general securities house of Blair, Bonner...