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...quite amazed that I can make a good living writing books my audiences hate, making talks my audiences resent. Of course it can't last. Some day somebody will read one of my books or understand what I am saying." So quipped radical Author Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey last month...
Divorced. Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Socialist Review, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of the London Spectator; and Esther Murphy Strachey, daughter of the late Patrick Francis Murphy, head of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods), famed after-dinner speaker; in London...
...Loewenstein '32 was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 as winner of the Boylston and Loe Wade prize speaking contest held in the Music Building last night. Charles Sedgwick '34 won the first Boylston prize of the same amount, while Leo Srole '33 and J. C. Willis '32 received the two other Boylston awards...
...eight original Houston children, survivors are Andrew Jackson Houston, custodian of San Jacinto battlefield, and Mrs. Nettie Houston Bringhurst of San Antonio. Living descendants: 20 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, 35 great-great-grandchildren. Living grandchildren are: Mrs. Margaret Bell Probert, New York novelist; Mrs. G. H. Loe, Toledo, Ohio; Temple Houston Jr., Enid, Okla.; Sam Houston Ill, Claremore, Okla.; Richard Houston, Woodward, Okla.; Mrs. W. C Henderson, Tulsa, Okla.; Adriane Houston and Margaret Houston, La Porte, Tex.; Mrs. R. E. McDonald, Stamford, Tex.; Mrs. Josephine Paulus, Pearsall Tex.; Mrs. J. B. Heitchew, Abilene, Tex.; Harry Houston and Temple H. Morrow...
Died. Patrick Francis Murphy, 72, president of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods), father-in-law of Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey (British journalist, cousin to Author Lytton Strachey) ; famed after-dinner speaker; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Tall, elegantly dressed, Speaker Murphy was featured at dinners of The Lambs and Manhattan Clubs, at July 4 meetings of U. S. residents in Paris and London. Some Murphyisms...