Word: palfrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual competition for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution will be held in Emerson D. tomorrow at 8 o'clock, and will be open to the public. Robert S. Hillyer Jr., Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory will preside, and the judges will be the Reverend Mr. Palfrey Perkins, '05, John M. Maguire, III, professor of Law, and Frederick G. Packard, Jr., associate professor of Public Speaking. Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Orator, emeritus, will act as honorary judge...
Married. Belle Wyatt Roosevelt, 22, daughter of the Major Kermit Roosevelts; and John Gorham Palfrey Jr., 23, Harvard '40; in Fairfax, Va. Among the wedding guests: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, a cousin of the bride's father...
Memorial services for Robert F. Herick '90, who died on October 13, were held yesterday afternoon in Memorial Chapel at four o'clock. Conducted by the Reverend Palfrey Perkins, the services lasted for about half an hour and were quite simple...
This week she will try for the U.S. Women's championship at the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills. Her competition will be less tough than it might have been-Defending Champion Sarah Palfrey Cooke has abdicated her crown in favor of an expected baby. Consequently California's latest comet is favored to win. If she does, she will be the youngest women's champion since Helen Wills (who first won the title...
There was no Molla Mallory, no Suzanne Lenglen, no Alice Marble, no Helen Wills among the women either. Helen Jacobs, the nearest thing to one, was tired. Little Sarah Palfrey Fabyan ("Twinkletoes") Cooke ran over Jacobs in the semifinal, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1. Then good-looking Mrs. Cooke tangled with good-looking Pauline Betz in the final. Result: first championship for Twinkletoes in a good many years of trying, 7-5, 6-2. At 28, she is the oldest first-time winner of the Forest Hills singles...