Word: holbrooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson Business Manager William S. Holbrook III, announced last night that the organization would bill MGM for all expenses incurred in tracking down the bust. The statue had been placed in a niche in the Crimson "Sanctum" as a memorial for Fall, who was President of the daily...
With today's issue of the CRIMSON the 1951-52 Executive Board takes office. Members of the incoming board are: William M. Simmons '52, President; Rudelph Kass '52, Managing Editor; William S. Holbrook III '52, Business Manager; David L. Ratner '52, Editorial Chairman; Marlowe A. Sigal '52, Photographic Chairman; Frank B. Gilbert '52, Associate Managing Editor; Edward J. Coughlin '52, Sports Editor; and Robert L. Wiley, Jr. '52, Advertising Manager...
...doing solid work, but the year's big launching was Princeton's first volume of its projected 52-volume The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Allan Nevins completed his two-volume Emergence of Lincoln, which examined as if for the first time the crucial years 1857-61. Stewart Holbrook had the fine idea of tracking down the pioneers whose home towns were in New England, and produced a fascinating piece of Americana in The Yankee Exodus, while John Bakeless reproduced the look of the country as its first explorers saw it in The Eyes of Discovery. Civil War fans...
...CRIMSON takes pleasure in announcing the election of the following officers to next years' executive board: William Murray Simmons '52 of Chicago and Winthrop House as President; Rudolph Kass '52 of Cedarhurst, New York, and Dunster House as Managing Editor; William Summer Holbrook '52 of Los Angeles and Lowell House as Business Manager; David Louis Ratner '52 of New York City and Eliot House as Editorial Chairman; Marlowe Arthur Sigal '52 of Easton, Pennsylvania, and Claverly Senior House as Photographic Chairman...
Died. Robert Holbrook Smith ("Dr. Bob"), 71, Vermont-born Ohio doctor and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous; after long illness; in Akron. In 1935 Smith met a visiting Manhattan stockbroker, "Bill W.," in Akron. Both alcoholics, they decided that the only hope lay in banding together, formed A.A., substituted confessions, coffee & doughnuts, group meetings and trust in a "higher power" for the escapes alcohol had provided. A.A. now has more than 110,000 members in the U.S. and abroad, is credited with keeping about half of them from the bottle...