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Married. Brigadier Gen. Pelham Davis Glassford, 51, who resigned as superintendent of the District of Columbia police six months after the Bonus Expeditionary Force marched to Washington (TIME, Oct. 31, 1932); and Lucille K. Painter, 33, his secretary; in Holbrook, Ariz...
...evening last week. He and 400 others were saluting the semicentennial of Memorial, first exclusive cancer hospital in the U S., second in the world.* At the speakers' table were, among others, President Dean Lewis of the American Medical Association; President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; Harry Pelham Robbins of Manhattan's Empire Trust Co., who presided; Lucius Nathan Littauer, glovemaking benefactor; William Henry Donner, grandfather of President Roosevelt's Grandson William Donner Roosevelt; Dr. Clarence Cook Little, director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. President Roosevelt sent a message of good wishes...
...emeritus Lowell, founder of the Society, is a member of the nominating committee, also known as the Senior Fellows. With him are associated Alfred North Whitehead, professor of philosophy; John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature; Lawrence Joseph Henderson '98, professor of Biological Chemistry; and Charles Pelham Curtis, Jr. '14, member of the Harvard Corporation. President Conant and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, are ranked as members ex-officio...
...Mills' pupils was making football history. Bob Greene who has been coached by Brickley and Mills during the past weeks won a thrilling game with 30 seconds to play when he booted a perfect angular 40 yd. dropkick to give Bronxville a 9-to-7 victory over Pelham. I thought you might be able to use this, so I'm passing it along...
...Author. Writing funny stories is not all sherry and biscuits to Pelham ("Plum") Grenville Wodehouse, 51. He started it as a release from the tedium of a high stool in the Bank of England where his father's sudden retirement landed him instead of in Oxford. His scribbling soon persuaded the head clerk ("dark...