Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME, clear, curt, hardly complete, failed to mention possibly the most dramatic struggle in the life of John J. McGraw (TIME, June 13)- his battle against a nickname. Young and irascible Third Baseman McGraw was known as "Muggsy" in Baltimore, gloried in the name. As he grew older, fatter, the name seemed undignified. No longer a head-puncher, save in sundry clubs where he was reputed to have lost more fights than an English heavyweight, John McGraw objected to rowdy publicity, fought strenuously for years and finally had the offensive appellation discarded first by the New York and then...
...Form Prize-winner at Groton was Tudor Gardiner, son of Maine's Governor William Tudor Gardiner. At Andover Ring W. Lardner Jr., son of the taciturn humorist, won two English prizes, one honorable mention. Eugene O'Neill Jr. won a Greek philosophy prize, was named Ivy Orator at Yale. From Princeton were graduated (with high honors in modern languages) Mark Sullivan Jr., son of the political writer and (with high honors in art & archaeology) William Watt Blanton, son of Texas' Representative Thomas Lindsay Blanton. From Holy Cross College (Worcester, Mass.) was graduated Francis R., son of Tammany Leader John Francis...
Frank Martin Snowden, Jr. '32, of Roxbury, has won the $75 Bowdoin Prize in Classics, for a translation into Attic Greek. Honorable mention is given to H. L. Bisbee '32, who gained the prize last year...
...Lloyd McKin Garrison Prize of $175 has been divided between Stanislas Pascal Franchot '32, of Boston, for his poem "Prelude to the Twilight of the West" and James Rufus Agee '32, of Rockland, Maine, for his group of poems. Both men will get silver medals. Honorable mention goes to C. L. Sultzberger '34, R. M. Hatch '33, and Keith Martin...
...Graduate School a Bowdoin prize of $300 was awarded to David Fleisher 2G, of Brooklyn, New York, in the fields of English, Fine Arts, and Music, for an essay entitled "Bacon's 'Essays' and Castiglione's 'Courtier'". G. E. Stead 1G and M. W. Eccles 4G earned honorable mention. In the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering, the award of $300 went to William Fausset Bruce, Ph.D. '31, of West Somerville, for an essay entitled "The Stereoiserism of Oximes." J. D. Squires 1G and E. S. Redford 2G both obtained honorable mention for their work in the fields...