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There are no Ayers in the firm today because none of F. W. Ayer's brothers lived to manhood and the founder himself produced no sons. Wil Wilfred Fry inherited the control of the business because his wife was F. W. Ayer's only surviving child, but not until he had amply proved his ability to manage the agency wisely and well. In June 1936, Wayland Ayer Fry, fresh from Colage University, went to work for N. W. Ayer & Son to learn the business from the bottom rung, as his father had done before...
Dick Harlow, next introduced, talked of his appreciation of the backing of the press this fall. He mentioned the splendid spirit of the team, Captain Jim Gaffney particularly, and called George Hedblom "one of he finest examples of manhood I have known," mentioning his work this fall and his play, particularly, in the Holy Cross game last year when he made 12 tackles in 13 plays, and, weighing only 150 pounds, played against a 200 pounder...
...scholarships, according to the will of Cecil John Rhodes, are awarded annually on the basis of scholastic and literary abilities; moral qualities; under which are considered manhood, truth, courage, and fellowship; force of character and leadership; physical vigor, as demonstrated by interest in outdoor sports. As the committee is on the watch for men who will excel in a particular field, intellect and character will receive more emphasis than the quality of physical vigor...
...mother's piety, his uncle Horace's Taft School, Yale, the A. E. F. and Cincinnati's Charter movement. At Yale (Class of 1918) he was football tackle, basketball captain, Phi Beta Kappa, winner of the Francis Gordon Brown award for "good scholarship and high manhood." While his classmates were busy getting into officers' training camps, Taft enlisted as a buck private in the Army, got married before sailing for France. Returning a first lieutenant, he finished a Yale law course in 1921, stayed on through football season as a line coach. Back home in Cincinnati...
...know Roosevelt. He has been in public life from early manhood. What do you know about the individual who now appears as the most probable candidate of the minority party...