Word: rumford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Sidney Rossiter, 67, census expert, president since 1916 of the Rumford Press;* of heart disease; at Concord...
Engaged. Charles Rumford Walker, 35, author (Steel, Bread & Fire) ; to Adelaide Haley George, 22, actress (You Never Can Tell) of Denver...
...Paul Baxter '96, and Associate Professor William Chase Greene '11, Professor Wilson, and Professor Gulick will compose the meetings committee. Professors Harlow Sharpley, director of the University Observatory, Professor Percy Williams Bridgman '04, Professor Frederick A. Saunders of the Jefferson Physical laboratory, and Professor Kennelly are members of the Rumford medal committee. George Russell Agassiz '84, Overseer, will serve on the anditing committee. Professor Reid Hunt, and Professor Baxter have been appointed to the C. M. Warren committee...
...witnessed her debut as Orfeo. Loved her. Would have married her if she had asked me. She didn't. Might actually have chosen Bernard Shaw and chose a Mr. Rumford instead. What a woman...
That young Charles Rumford Walker would always want to write seemed likely when, aged 10, in Concord, N. H., he put his money, earned by raking leaves, into a hand printing press and began publishing a weekly newspaper in his attic. He was "romantically mechanical"; built a balloon that burned up on its first trip...