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...Grace graduated Magna Cum Lande in 1930, after attending Andover Academy. He returned to Harvard some years later and obtained his Master's degree in 1935 and a Ph.D. in 1938. A resident of Milton, Lt. Grace was married in 1935 to Miss Priscilla Bartol, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John W. Bartol, also of Milton. His wife survives...
...Elias Manchester Boddy of the Los Angeles Daily News gazes at no crystal and reads no stars. But when the National Recovery Act went into effect in 1933, Boddy wrote: "It will eventually be thrown out." When the Wagner Act was passed, he said: "Labor regards [it] as a Magna Charta, whereas it will prove to be merely a license for a nationwide fight for union leadership." Months before it happened, Boddy foresaw the German-Russian alliance. Last September he was on the button again. Wrote Boddy in his daily Views of the News column: " . .. Another great movement will...
...degree. Three men received the A.B. degree summa cum laude: Isadore I. Hirschman, Jr., of Huntington, W. Va., in Mathematics; Richard J. Hyman, of Malden, Mass., in History and Literature; and Robert P. Ulin, of Brookline, Mass., in History. Eighteen students received the A.B. or S.B. degree magna cum laude; 38, cum laude...
...foreign friends to a durbar to celebrate. They found the Maharaja held virtually incommunicado by his ministers. Hundreds of village chieftains waited patiently for him. So did huge ceremonial elephants, with painted toenails and hats like those of Dumbo's mother. When the Maharaja finally showed up, his Magna Charta looked greatly altered. His ministers looked smug...
...mother's sides. Putnam has six children; Saltonstall, five. Like his longtime acquaintance the Governor, Springfield's mayor is a product of Back Bay boyhood, Boston's snooty Noble and Greenough private day school, of Harvard (where Saltonstall starred as an athlete, Putnam as a magna cum laude) and of Harvard's best social clubs (Hasty Pudding and Fly for Putnam, Hasty Pudding and Porcellian for Saltonstall). Putnam served as ensign and lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy during World War I, while fellow alumnus Saltonstall was busy as a lieutenant in the field artillery...