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Four seniors, who are graduating with highest honors, will be able to travel abroad next fall, as holders of Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships. They are Clement Lowell Harriss '34, of Omaha, Nob.; Gove Griffith Johnson Jr., '34, of Washington, D. C.; Robert Calhoun Creel '34, of Cambridge, Mass.; and John Arthur Martin '34, of Banger...
...back until 1918 and although a U. S. citizen had to fight to get his brewery back from the U. S. Government which had seized it. A fine, mustachioed, barrel-chested brewer of the old school, although he had three sons, he kept the reins of power. He could nob believe that Prohibition would ever come, was aghast when it did, believed it would soon end and struggled on making less & less near-beer. He died in 1926, aged 92, much saddened, but he left his heirs a rich heritage in real estate acquired in the beer business. His only...
Even off campus social activities center at the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco--such are the scruples and the loyalty of the sons of the Stanford...
...omission of John Drum, head of American Trust Co., now, after many mergers, San Francisco's large independent bank ($273,776,849 in deposits). Like Giannini, Mr. Drum is a Papal Knight. He is most famed for his starry-domed marble bungalow atop the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. Notable also is able Frank B. Anderson, board chairman of Bank of California; his chief idiosyncrasy, a fondness for donkeys. Paul Shoup, President of Southern Pacific Co. also stands high among the 585,300 citizens who maintain San Francisco's position as first financial city of the West...
...Jacques, chef at the Tehama House, ladling out sea-gull-egg omelets. Banker Eugene Duprey washes down a 15-pound turkey with 20 bottles of claret and waddles into the street to be acclaimed for having won a great bet. Garibaldi the Magnificent furnishes Mark Hopkins' palace on Nob Hill for a commission of $100,000, having chests of gold dragged to his cottage door each week and Neronic feasts of roast duck, bouillabaisse and champagne, while the coin is counted...