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...essays, the James Gordon Bennett prize goes to Royden A. Keddy '49; the Philo Sherman Bennett award, to Immanuel H. Kohn '48; the DeLaucey K. Jay award to Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.; and the Toppan award to George Albert Lanyi, Ph.D. candidate...
...colicky cow in Ithaca, N.Y., a veterinarian prescribed stiff doses of kerosene. Farmer Royden M. Vose tried to buy four quarts, ran into rationing trouble, finally talked a dealer into letting him supply the coupons later. He sent a letter to the Office of Price Administration office in Syracuse. No answer. Off went another letter. This time back came an OPA questionnaire to be filled...
...audience, among the mink-coated sponsors, there were still some stormy echoes. President Mrs. Royden Keith, who had got Solomon his job, had resigned ("like a bolt from the blue," cooed her co-directors. "Perhaps she felt that the Board was not in sympathy with her policies"). So ex-President Keith had to sit downstairs in an ordinary orchestra seat, while platinum-blonde Acting-President Mrs. James George Shakman (whose Pabst Brewery money helps feed the orchestra's kitty) basked in a box. Beamed she: "We are all working in perfect harmony. . . . The girls are such fine musicians, they...
...bitings, hair pullings. Socialite sponsors quarreled with each other; the women musicians quarreled with Conductress Sundstrom. Several times it looked as if the show could not go on. In 1937, with a deficit of $3,500 on their hands, the orchestra's board of directors elected socialite Mrs. Royden J. Keith president. Mrs. Keith forthwith fired Conductress Sundstrom...
...Sunday, Dean Noe sat in a pew in the Cathedral whose pulpit he had occupied for 17 years, while a sermon criticizing such "vagaries" as his 22-day fast was preached by Rev. Royden Keith Yerkes of the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.). That night the Dean collapsed, was taken to a hospital where Memphis specialists, who had been waiting a week for such an emergency, attempted to save his life with forced feeding...