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...from Wall Street. Jimmy Forrestal is a notable example of able businessman turned able public servant. Born a Dutchess County neighbor of Franklin Roosevelt, he went to Princeton, edited the Daily Princetonian, got his nose flattened in a friendly boxing match, was graduated in time to enlist in the Navy in World War I. He emerged a lieutenant...
Died. John Maudgridge Snowden Allison, 55, eloquently lecturing Yale historian (Thiers and the French Monarchy), Princetonian ('10); after a brief illness; in New Haven...
...governor of the state. Draping himself in his finery as a Masonic Grand Master, he repaired to a rude country crossroads where the local citizenry had provided free land for a college. There he was aided in laying the cornerstone of what is now East Hall by his fellow Princetonian Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, who hoped to see the land "adorned with an elegant village...
Engaged. Anne Moen Bullitt, 19, fetching daughter of Philadelphia's socialite-Democratic candidate for mayor, William Christian Bullitt, ex-Ambassador to Russia, France; and Marine Corps Lieut. Daniel Baugh Brewster Jr., 19, peacetime Princetonian of Brooklandville, Md.; in Philadelphia. Her mother, the late Anne Moen Louise Bryant (widow of Soviet Hero John Reed), became Bullitt's second wife in 1923, was divorced by him in 1930, died in France...
Died. Dr. William Francis Magie, 84, notable fixture of Princeton's physics department for 50 years; after long illness; in Princeton, NJ. Valedictorian of Woodrow Wilson's class ('79), he was a member of the original Daily Princetonian board...