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Permit me to correct a partially incorrect statement in TIME, Nov. 16. On p. 12, "The ist Ohio," you refer to Congressman-elect John B. Hollister, as "a Harvardman...
...aggressive young Democrat, he humped himself energetically, squeaked through with only 3,500 votes to spare. To succeed him and maintain the honor of "the Speaker's district'' Cincinnati Republicans nominated John Baker Hollister. Like Speaker Longworth, Nominee Hollister is a shining socialite of good old family, a Harvardman, a cultured and urbane gentleman. His law partners are the sons of President Taft, his home is in the Indian Hill section and his golf is played at the best clubs. He went into the campaign as a lashing, slashing Wet. He declared that he always got all the liquor...
...Author. Edwin Arlington Robinson, 61, foremost if not greatest U. S. Poet (he has thrice won the Pulitzer Prize), is, almost alone among his colleagues, an almost mysterious figure. His hatred of publicity has never drawn him into the limelight. A Maine boy, a Harvardman, he winters in Boston and Manhattan, summers at artistic MacDowell Colony, Peterboro, N. H., does much of his writing there. Poverty once drove him to take a job as dump cart inspector on a subway construction. When Theodore Roosevelt was President he read and liked Robinson's poetry, offered him a consulship in Mexico...
University. This week the Harvard Board of Overseers meets to elect a successor to the late Clifford Herschel Moore, who died in Cambridge last month (TIME, Sept. 14). "Persons in close touch with the University," said the Globe, admitted that the Board would elect Kenneth Ballard Murdock, 36, Harvardman (1916), associate professor of English and master of Harvard's new Leverett House. Not only that: Professor Murdock, it was said, is being groomed to succeed President Lowell, who might resign (though Harvard stoutly denies it) at the end of this year...
...Chicago's exciting fortnight of international polo at Onwentsia (TIME, July 20). Other contributors were talent mustered from around the town. Arthur Meeker Jr., arty son of one of the best families, wrote rather harshly about having to stay in Illinois in the summertime. William C. Boyden, Harvardman, literary lawyer, did a comic piece about actors and actresses he had known. He used to be theatre critic for the earlier Chicagoan. Another old contributor-Durand Smith, Oxonian, Lake Forest socialite-sent in some travel notes from Italy. Helen Young wrote a page of tittle-tattle. She is society editor...