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Investigators had never heard of him and Henry Latham Doherty knew him only as a brash young gaspipe salesman when, in 1928, Frank Preston Parish founded Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. When newspaper editors looked at his smooth young face they dubbed him "The Boy Wizard of Finance" only to learn that he had been bankrupt two years before. Oil and gas men who took the trouble to inquire about his life found great gaps in the Parish career. He had bummed his way around the West riding the rails. He had set himself up in machinery business in Chicago...
...Iowa scholarship, which was made possible by combining several grants awarded by the Charles Elliott Perkins Scholarship Fund, will be awarded on alternate years. The Kentucky award which comes from the Jessie Preston Draper Memorial Fund, however, will be given annually...
...frail, goateed President William Preston Few, who can thank "Buck" Duke for blowing up his tiny Trinity College into big Duke University. Snapped grateful President Few: "The glory of this university is that it is built in accordance with carefully made plans. These, in all essentials, are apt to be followed to the end. I have a profound appreciation of what Mr. Duke has striven to do for Education and Humanity, and I would do honor to his good deeds in any way, however conspicuous...
Substantiating prevalent rumors that have been current since early in December, George Preston Marshal, president of the Boston Redskins, professional football team, announced at a banquet in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel yesterday that Eddie Casey, former head coach at Harvard will coach the Redskins next fall...
...skimen who will compete for the championship cup and the individual medals are Harold A. White '37, Fredrick S. Bigelow '36, Thomas Mottey, II '38, and William F. Loomis '36 of the first team; Harry S. Parker '35 and John M. Hammond '37, Sidney Cobb '38, Richard Preston '37, and Wendall M. Hastings '38 of the second team...