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...General Staff. Of this work Root remarked: "I made the Army my client." If Root had been a candidate, Theodore Roosevelt might not have become President when McKinley was shot, and Theodore Roosevelt's distant cousin might not have been started on a political career, the fortunate possessor of a great name...
...really much shorter in Siamese" was the modest comment of Kaisui Nimmanahaeminda I G.B., of Chiengmai, Siam, possessor of the longest surname in Harvard University, when questioned about his astounding monicker in his room at the Business School yesterday...
...Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then set up as an independent minister at Guild-house in London's Eccleston Square. Possessor of an intellect vastly superior to any Aimee Semple McPherson (see below), Preacher Royden nevertheless employed a modicum of showmanship in uniforming her attendants and herself in berets, trim dark gowns. Plain, somewhat masculine in manner, far from robust since she was born with both hips dislocated, Dr. Royden worked hard...
Leverett House recently inaugurated a deck tennis court on the flat roof of the Dining Room. Work on the project has been in progress for some time; with its completion last week, Leverett became the possessor of the only deck tennis court in the College...
...colored cook of that homespun novelist, Edna Ferber. A friend of ours who recently had the pleasure of visiting her in New York spent most of her time being shown the glories of the lady writer's new Park Avenue penthouse, famous in the eyes of its present possessor as the former home of Ivar Krueger, the match king. One of its more spectacular features was a glassed-in terrace in which grew an orchard of genuine peach trees. This season, Miss Ferber's first in the apartment, brought an unexpected bumper crop. Some could be used in a silver...