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Harvard tracksters made the best showing in the mile. Tuttle, with a final burst of speed, led the way in 4:41 and Robert Meckley placed third in this event. In the two mile run Edward Swett was second. John Kent took second...
...young Holmes married an old friend, Fannie Dixwell. They lived in Dr. Holmes's house, because Wendell was making hardly any money. Laboriously, conscientiously he revised and updated Kent's famed legal Commentaries. Then he slaved on a work of his own, The Common Law, in which words like "logic," "rule," "syllogism" were replaced by such unlegal expressions as "experience," "expediency," "necessity," "life." Soon Harvard's admiring President Eliot offered Holmes a professorship of law. A year later Holmes took his seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court Bench. "So you are the son of the celebrated Oliver...
...great country estate, St. Clere, in Kent (now a nursery), he was always known as Captain. One of his tenants thought he could always tell whether the financial news was good or bad according to whether Norman sported a red or blue beret. His devotion to the Bank was fanatical. Looking out over his garden, Norman once said: "I wish they would let me stay here." Said an old servant: "Surely you can if you wish." Replied Norman: "No, it is impossible" - and left at once for the Bank...
Columnist Fisher groups 54-year-old Pundit Lippmann with old (69) G.O.P. Spokesman Mark Sullivan (55 papers, circ. est. 5,000,000) and old (66) Roosevelt-baiting Frank Kent (87 papers, circ. 5,000,000) as having undergone "violent reversal of attitude at periods approximating their middle years and success." Of Sullivan, Fisher says: "The fact that none of the tragedies [he has predicted] ever came to pass . . . has in no way affected [his] status as prophet, analyst," keeper of the Old Guard faith. Of Kent: "A prosperous citizen [vice president of Baltimore's Sunpapers] . . . when [he] assails...
Father (Frederick H.) Sill, founder and headmaster emeritus of Connecticut's Kent School, celebrated his 70th birthday reading congratulatory letters from alumni to their beloved "Pater," wore as usual the monastic habit (called by the schoolboys "the great white tent") of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross...