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Chicagoans learned that Actor John Bryan who has been playing Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice at the Chicago Civic Theatre is a grandson of the late great William Jennings Bryan. Mode of discovery: he was visited by Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, whose son he is by her first marriage with William Homer Leavitt. John Bryan Leavitt was adopted by his grandfather, shortened his name...
Arthur Howland Baker, Jr. '34, Thayer Academy; Lorenzo Martinez de Picabia, Jr. '34, St. Mark's; Joseph Francis Ferriter '34, Choate; Roger Sherman Greene '34, Country Day; Herbert Marshall Howe '34, St. Georges; Chester Harding King '34, Kent; John Maier '34, Hill; John Taylor Gilman Nichols '34, Belmont Hill; Herbert Russell Pierce, Jr. '34, Noble and Greenough; Atreus von Schrader, Jr. '34, Milton; Edward Eaby Stowell '34, St. Paul's School; Richard John Walsh, Jr. '34, Phillips Andover; William Wemple '34, Loomis...
...sick man three times, announced that contrary to current rumor the patient was "neither dead nor dying." The Junta's President Sanchez Cerro thundered that "Tyrant" Leguia "must be made to account for his acts," ordered Augusto Leguia and son Juan imprisoned in the island fortress of San Lorenzo, bastille of Peru's political prisoners. Peruvians thrilled at a typically Latin touch: jailer-to-be of ex-President Leguia, commander of the guard placed over him, was a Lieutenant Alfonso Llosa just released from the same prison by the revolution after serving one year of an indefinite sentence imposed...
Amadeo Peter Giannini, San Francisco banker, heard in Germany that his stepfather. Banker Lorenzo ("Boss") Scatena, was dying, boarded ship at Bremerhaven Aug. 13 at 11:50 a. m., raced by boat, train, airplane, reached San Francisco Aug. 22 at 8:13 a. m. Total elapsed time: nine days, five hr., 23 min. But Banker Scatena died several hours before his stepson arrived...
...Renaissance, he preserved his life and his artistic integrity for nearly 90 years. While yet in his 20's he had done the Pieta of St. Peter's, the David of Florence, had become a national figure and a centre of dissension. When he was a boy, Lorenzo de' Medici was his patron, and his intermittent allegiance to that family was finally commemorated in the dreamy Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo. Six Popes employed him. An ever-unfinished undertaking for a tomb of the first plagued him half his life. For four years he worked on the Sistine Chapel ceiling...