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Died. Julius Howland Barnes, 86, Duluth industrialist, onetime president (1921-24) and chairman (1929-31) of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sometime trouble-shooter for his friend Herbert Hoover; of a heart attack; in Duluth...
Actress Myrna Loy, 53, once the Thin Man's perfect wife, announced a separation and the coming end of her fourth marriage. Since 1951, she has been the wife of Howland H. Sargeant, 47, who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs when she married him, now heads the Manhattan-based, anti-Communist American Committee for Liberation...
...Bedford whaler, the John Howland, spotted the five starving Japanese who had given up all hope after nearly seven months. Having taken the castaways aboard, Captain William H. Whitfield went right on chasing whales. To Manjiro, whose usual catch was bass, whaling was a mighty experience. Quick, curious and alert, the young lad picked up English rapidly, learned the whaler's tasks and pitched in with a will. Captain Whitfield, a widower, took such a fancy to him that he brought him home (Fairhaven, Mass.), changed his name to John Mung, put him in school and took...
...Japanese delicacy favored by Sam Welles is toasted octopus cooked in oil over a charcoal brazier. John Dowling lists a dish he was served in Pnompenh, Cambodia: monkey soup and noodles. One day in 1944, far from his usual Georgia cooking, Correspondent Bill Howland arrived cold and hungry at an Alaskan trading post that boasted a cook who was half-Eskimo, half-Russian. Howland was invited to have dinner. Says he: "It was roasted young bear, garnished with potatoes and gravy, as savory as any dish turned out by Escoffier." On one of his northern trips, Bob Schulman discovered...
...same time yesterday the Association announced the election of three vice-presidents and a treasurer. Irving D. Dawes '12, William Rice Odell, Jr. '19, and Maurice Heckscher '28, are next year's vice-presidents, while Howland S. Warren '32 will direct the association's finances...