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...come in the night, one of those chowder-thick, chill wet shrouds from the sea that Maine men,, call "dungeon fogs." Casco Bay sailors stayed indoors. As Paul Thurston, president of the Rumford Falls Trust Co., Rumford, Me., walked into his office he had noticed empty desks, typewriters silent that should have been clicking. His secretary, Leila Sanders, was not in her place. Albert Melanson, Bessie Strople, Elizabeth Howard had not appeared for work, had sent no word...
When telephones in the bank began to ring, Mr. Thurston began to put two & two together. He learned that his missing employes and 30 others had sailed the day before from Dyer's Cove, 60 miles from inland Rumford, to picnic on Monhegan Island. They had been taken there by Skipper Paul Johnson on the Don, a 44-foot "Nova Scotian," long past her rum-running prime. Thurston telephoned to the Coast Guard. They had seen nothing...
Speakers at the luncheons included Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture and leader of the Bauhaus School of Design; Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion; Dean Landis; William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History; and George W. Pierce, Rumford Professor Physics and director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory, who is retiring next fall...
William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History and expert on modern history; Dr. Thomas M. Rivers of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute; Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory; and George Washington Pierce, Rumford Professor of Physics and director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory at Harvard, who is retiring next fall...
Pierce was named Rumford Professor of Physics in 1921, and Gordon McKay Professor of Communication Engineering in 1935. He has been director of the Cruft Laboratory since 1914. He was born at Webberville, Texas, 1872; received the S.B. degree from the University of Texas in 1893, and the A.M. in 1894; he received the A.M. of Harvard in 1899, and the Ph.D. in 1900. He was named assistant in Physics, 1901; Instructor in Physics, 1902; assistant professor of Physics, 1907; and professor of Physics...