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...Northrop was pulled out of the mile run and saved for the two mile relay, leaving the field open for Bowdoin's Bob Porter and Rhode Island's Stan Holt, who ran to the tape together in a spectacular finish with the first Crimson runner, Bill Wright, well back in fifth place...
...wealth if not in prestige the open-handed Toronto millionaires are a match for Montreal's best. Richest man in Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...
...born in Cambridge and has taught at Harvard 41 years, Dr. Ford has been decorated by France, Italy, Rumania and Spain for his zeal in spreading their languages, literatures and histories. He has written or edited more than 20 textbooks and anthologies, is editor of Henry Holt & Co.'s Spanish series, has been president of the Italian Historical Society of Massachusetts, the Dante Society and (1931-33) the solemn American Academy of Aris & Sciences...
...Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (TIME...
Agreeing that church union is their only salvation, the 300 delegates thereupon voted to replace Dr. Holt with another lover of unity, Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones, 60, of Detroit. This affable churchman, who will run the Federal Council for the next two years, is a Disciple of Christ. Born in Texas, he filled pastorates in rural Kentucky, Cleveland and Bloomington, Ill. before going to Detroit's Central Christian Church in 1920. That church Dr. Jones found in a run-down district, merged it with North Woodward Christian Church, raised money in 1928 for a fine new building...