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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 21, Dartmouth senior, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; and Mary Todhunter Clark, 22, of Cynwyd, Pa., Foxcroft graduate, granddaughter of the late President George B. Roberts of Pennsylvania R. R.; at Philadelphia...
Birthday. Paul Allman Siple of Erie, Pa., Sea Scout (branch of Boy Scouts of America), youngest member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition; in Little America. Age: 21. National Scout Commissioner Daniel Carter ("Duffle Bag") Beard, felicitated him over the radio, announced his promotion to grade of mate of the Sea Scout Ship Niagara. Concluded Commissioner Beard: "Oh, say! Don't forget to bring back a coop of penguins and a school of killer whales. They will need them to guard you on the flagship Niagara...
...organ to be installed at my countryplace, "Longwood," Chester County, Pa., containing 10,374 pipes and 205 stops, is now being installed by the Aeolian Company in the conservatory at Longwood, where concerts are given from 3 until 5 o'clock every Sunday afternoon On the first and third Sundays of the month the conservatories, gardens and greenhouses, and organ concert are open to the public at an admission fee of 50?, receipts being divided between five hospitals, two in Chester County, Pa., and three in Wilmington, Delaware. (The conservatories and gardens are open free of charge every week...
...seasonal present to its readers, that elegant monthly The Sportsman issued an elegant supplement, "Fox Hunting Formalities," by J. Stanley Reeve, seasoned and punctilious sportsman of Haverford, Pa. Member of the Radnor and Whitemarsh Valley Hunt Clubs, second-cousin-in-law of the late Theodore Roosevelt and of the late Poetess Amy Lowell, J. Stanley Reeve has been called (last year by Town & Country) "The leading fox hunter of the leading fox hunting city in the country." Except for a few weeks many years ago when he substituted at Radnor he has never been a master of foxhounds...
...Chagrin Falls. Out from the mountainous, forested pit of Bellefonte, Pa., Gethsemane of eastern airmail pilots, flew National Air Transport's Thomas P. Nelson last week. As he headed west for Cleveland thick snow flurries hid him from the ground. At snow-blown Cleveland Pilot Nelson was late, by minutes, hours, days. Col. Lindbergh, onetime flying companion of the missing man, flew his own machine over the treacherous Alleghenies to join 25 other planes in a systematic search of northern Ohio. Presumption was that Nelson was forced down by ice forming on the wings of his plane. Wing...