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Though as early as 1862 librarian John Langdon Sibley began his long (and unsuccessful in his lifetime) campaign for a new building, it was not until 1913 that the cornerstone of Widener was laid. Now, only a short time after President Conant's formal announcement that a new place was needed, plans are underway for the Lamont Undergraduate Library...
Died. Harry Langdon, 60, wide-eyed, comic deadpantomimer of Hollywood's silent-film days (The Strong Man, Long Pants, etc.); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Out of a long apprenticeship in carnivals, circuses, tent shows, vaudeville, Langdon evolved his helpless, forlorn, little-man-against-the-world comic style, which was once worth $7,500 a week, later sank to "$22 a week-some weeks...
Winners of the Studentship live in the very rooms in the Old Court where John Harvard himself lived. Langdon P. Marvin '98, one of the men behind the plan, says it is "a real Anglo-American bond...
While stationed here Capt. Davidson resided at 7 Langdon Street, while Lt. Gieber lived at Wigglesworth Hall. Neither Capt. Olson nor Lt. Fulcher has definitely chosen his residence here in Cambridge yet, but they are both expected to find permanent lodgings soon...
...total imports-25 million tons-by sea. All the air imports could easily have been stowed into two Liberty ships. But the role air freight played in maintaining essential war production could not be thus measured in cold statistics. Last week a young, lean Navy lieutenant, Langdon P. Marvin Jr., chairman of WPB's Interdepartmental Air Cargo Priorities Committee, in a year-end summary of work done, told how air cargoes of vital raw materials arrived only a few hours before the last reserves were scraped from the bottom of U.S. stockpiles. Without planeloads of mica, quartz crystals, tantalate...