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...Roscoe Platt Conkling-for three weeks every scandal-nosing news cub has leered as he mouthed that name. Mr. Conkling is a roving gas engineer who plays the violin. Mrs. Sidney Erskine Brewster, petite and 26, did not guard the letters he wrote her with discretion. Mr. Brewster, 29, was an aviator, Manhattan scion, grew not to perceive the jest, killed his wife as she was dressing for dinner clad only in her chemise, killed himself. What editor or printer's devil in the U. S. does not know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling...
...boat house at 11.30 this morning for a light workout down to the Navy Yard and back. The line-up of the University eight remains unchanged from the shift made by Coach Haines last Friday. It is boated as follows: Stroke, Captain Winthrop; 7, Leavitt; 6, Darlington; 5, Platt; 4, Hubbard; 3, Saltonstall; 2, Ames; bow Barton; coxswain, Beer...
Stroke, Captain Winthrop; 7, Leavitt 6, Darlington; 5, Platt; 4, Hubbard; 3, Barton; 2, Watts; bow, Barry; coxswain, Pforzheimer...
First--Stroke, John Watts '28; 7, F. L. Barton '26; 6, Captain Robert Winthrop '26; 5, Geoffrey Platt '27; 4, J. P. Hubbard '26; 3, Kent Leavitt '26; 2, C. F. Darlington '26; bow, J. L. Barry '27; Cox, C. H. Pforzheimer...
This line-up of the veterans represents a considerable change from the positions the same men rowed last spring. Leavitt rowed at number 7 last season, Hubbard at 6, while Darlington held down the number 4 seat. Platt is the only member of last year's shell to row in the same position this year...