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Best blackout: the climax, in which the last of the three extra pearls, accidentally dropped overboard from the Normandie by Actor Guitry, skitters right back into an oyster...
Eugene H. Nickerson of Oyster Bay, N. Y., and Wigglesworth Hall, from St. Marks; Assistant Freshman Hockey Manager...
Joseph P. Lyford of Wilton, Connecticut and Holworthy Hall; Malcolm S. Mackenzie of Coopers town, New York and Holworthy Hall; Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. of New York and Holworthy Hall; Eugene H. Nickerson of Oyster Bay, New York and Wigglesworth; Charles H. Old father of Lincoln, Nebraska and Grays Hall; James J. Pattee, Jr. of Pueblo, Colorado and Straus Hall...
...Mystic, Conn. His museum contains 7,000 curiosities-among them Thomas A. Edison's first incandescent lamp, a hammer from Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky home, a cannon ball Mr. Eldredge firmly believed to be the first fired against Fort Sumter, an 8½-lb. petrified oyster, a piece of wood from the Confederate gunboat Merrimac. In 1933 he advertised for sale "a fully equipped museum, an honor to any town or city...
...Joseph Hamblen Sears (president, 1904-18, of D. Appleton & Co.. later head of his own firm) desiring a chef, saw an advertisement, called at the address given, met a short, stocky, quiet, efficient-looking servant, whom he hired on the spot. For 14 years in Mr. Sears' Oyster Bay, L. I. home, Alfred Grouard was a faultless chef who in spare time read religious works, prayed, but never left the estate, never received a letter, visitor, telegram, telephone call. Year ago Alfred Grouard's health failed, but when Mr. Sears called a doctor, Grouard refused...