Word: kissam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Kissam Vanderbilt, financier: "It was announced that I would embark on my palatial yacht, the Ara, with a party of friends, to undertake a cruise halfway round the world to study the ocean's bottom and the currents, to collect marine specimens for my museum on Long Island. It was recalled that the last yachtsman to undertake a serious oceanographic research was the late Prince Albert of Monaco, whose extensive labors were rewarded with the Agassiz gold medal of the National Academy of Science...
Died. Mrs. Ethel Kissam Train, wife of Arthur C. Train, the novelist, of bronchial pneumonia, in Manhattan...
...Advocate, and just concluded, the following men have been elected to the board: Charles John Innes '28, of Boston; Rodney Winfred Long '22, of Cambridge; and Edward Knowlton Nash '22, of Weston, as Business Editors; and Norman Cabot '22, of Boston; James Farquharson Leys, Jr., '22, of Boston; Arthur Kissam Train '23, of New York, N. Y., and William Whitman, 3d, of Boston, as Associate Editors...