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John K. Brown '69, Harvard's oldest living alumnus, died at Auburndale in his 95th year yesterday. He is survived by only one member of his class, Francis H. Appleton, 93, of Boston...
...survey of the oldest living Harvard men shows that those who didn't graduate lived longer than those who did. Edward J. Dunning, who entered with the class of '67 but failed to graduate, wins the diploma for longevity among former students. He was born October...
...which a Torah may be befouled, especially by goyim (gentiles), that few in the synagogues of Germany escaped desecration during the destruction last November. One of the few was in Manhattan last week, brought there by a refugee chemist named Heinrich Goldschmiedt, who salvaged it from Vienna's oldest synagogue before that edifice, like the others, was fired. The Vienna Jewish community instructed Chemist Goldschmiedt to present the Torah to an orthodox synagogue in the U. S. Without such instruction, the Torah would have been considered stolen property by good Jews. Mr. Goldschmiedt gave the scroll, wrapped...
Studebaker Corp. has a neat biography. Founded in 1852 by two bearded brothers who made wagons, it is the U.S.'s oldest vehicle maker. Its net sales once reached $166,000,000. It once employed famed Knute Rockne as a sort of supersalesman. When the company failed in 1933, after three years of refusing to admit the existence of Depression I, its grand old man, President Albert R. Erskine, went home and shot himself. Later, under former Vice Presidents Paul Hoffman and Harold S. Vance, it became the first automobile company to reorganize under famed Section...
Died. Katherine Stravinsky, 57, wife, first cousin and "oldest friend" of Composer Igor Stravinsky, mother of his four children; of tuberculosis; in Paris...