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...operate. Last week, still bursting with youthful energy, he celebrated his 60th birthday. At a party he was given a surprise ceremonial Birthday Volume of scientific articles by 59 of his colleagues, including such noted men as Drs. Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic, Andrew Conway Ivy of Northwestern, George Washington Crile of Cleveland. While his guests lit their cigars and settled back in their chairs, the doors to the dining hall opened wide and in trooped 50 of Dr. Lahey's friends, bearing a mammoth birthday cake, lavishly decorated with sugar paintings of Dr. & Mrs. Lahey playing...
...diminutive Isaac Burton Tigrett of Jackson, Tenn. took on the presidency of diminutive (48 miles) Birmingham & Northwestern Railroad as a sideline to his banking business. Eight years later he was a dyed-in-the-wool railroad man, head of Gulf, Mobile & Northern, and going strong. Four times in the next 20 years Railroader Tigrett enlarged his line, each time taking over another road, until he had 824 miles of right of way from Jackson to Mobile and New Orleans. Last week he stepped out of the diminutive class, stood to get a major trunk line from St. Louis...
...announced from California that he had changed his mind: "Since the war began, I have felt that I could not go on being a pacifist. If I were young enough to fight I would do so." Visiting in England, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, "White Rajah" of Sarawak (Northwestern Borneo), contributed 1,000,000 Malayan Straits dollars (about $470,000) to help the British Government...
...really had a place in society because they did not arrive in San Francisco until 1851). He went to Harvard Law School, practiced in Boston, taught at Keio University between 1889 and 1892 (where he helped introduce baseball to Japan), and from 1901 to 1929 was Dean of the Northwestern University Law School. Always called Mister (not Professor), Dean Wigmore did not retire when he became Dean Emeritus, but moved his office to the first floor of the Law School, near the front entrance, where he would be easier to get at. Every Wednesday and Saturday for at least...
...tall, slender old man with a well-brushed mustache and deep-set, friendly blue eyes, Dean Wigmore's passion for harmonizing the law of evidence is accompanied by a passion for just harmonizing. Words or music or both of nearly every song in the Northwestern Law School song book were his composition; he has also privately printed a book of songs called Lyrics of a Lawyer...