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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. John Isaac Waterbury, 78, of Manhattan and Morristown, N. J., financier (banks, railways, telephones), socialite, patron of the liberal arts; in Morristown...
...North Arlington, N. J., Author Bryan Hamilton Connolly, aged 14, pondered. The manuscript of his unfinished novel, The Marble Coffin, lay before him, and he had just written: "Your kids are being held for $500,000 ransom. Beginning tomorrow we will cut an ear off each one every day until the money is sent to us. When the ears are gone we will cut off their toes one by one." It was an effective piece of writing, but how would normal parents react to such a letter? Author Connolly, recalling the existence of his nine-year-old brother...
...Summerville, suburb of Rochester, N. Y., David G. Wilson, no dog owner, no dog lover, returned home late one night. As he entered his living room 13 dogs including a great mastiff rose from his chairs and wagged their tails in greeting. His wife upstairs knew nothing of them. They had entered by an open cellar window to escape the cold...
Class of 1932: M. A. Baskin, K. G. Gilman, A. R. Goodman, C. D. Harringtom, J. M. Keller, C. N. Mason, Jr. Theodore Piaseczny, E. F. Taylor, E. A. Walker, and R. H. Woodward...
...veterans at the Chelsea Naval Hospital will be visited this evening by J. E. Barrett '30, W. R. Harper '30, and J. N. Trainer '31, who will talk to the veterans on athletic affairs at Harvard. Official motion pictures of the Harvard-Yale football game at the Yale Bowl last fall will be shown, and Captain-elect Barrett will explain the game in detail...