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After a tired group of Coach Dick Harlow's players trudged their way to the Lapham Field House to assemble their gear when the Bowl game was over, the band did not forget them. They assembled underneath the second story looker room and serenaded the gridders with their entire repertoire...
...Francisco, Elmer E. Robinson, 52, a much-married (four times) Superior Court judge, succeeded to the mayor's chair voluntarily vacated by peripatetic Roger D. Lapham, who had traveled widely in his unsuccessful efforts to bring the United Nations to his home town. Elected by a narrow margin over two opponents, Robinson had the varied support of civic leaders, liquor interests and the Hearst newspapers...
Novelist Gertrude Atherton, who got herself "rejuvenated" by X ray at 64, still had young ideas as she turned 90 in San Francisco. When jolly Mayor Roger Lapham gave her a gold medal, she poutingly demanded a kiss as well, received a peck on the forehead, both cheeks...
...Gromyko rarely smiles. At a dinner party, Mrs. Roger Lapham (wife of San Francisco's mayor) asked him: "What do you think of American women?" Gromyko's answer: "I am not impressed." The lady was about to turn her back on him when he explained: "Mrs. Lapham, it is a joke...
...ships A-H now owns and 33 Commission ships it has chartered are currently sailing with no set routes to ports in Europe, Africa and Asia. Lewis Lapham would like to get the line back to operating its own ships on regular schedules. But he plans to wait until the pattern of postwar trade is clear and the U.S. Government decides about subsidies...