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...McClure, founder of McClure Syndicate, and John Sanburn Phillips, director of Crowell Publishing Co. Other famed alumni, living and dead, include: Thomas W. Goodspeed (1859), a refounder of the University of Chicago; Nelson Dean Jay (1905), Morgan partner; Robert Rice (1896), vice president and general manager of Colorado & Southern Ry.; Thomas Harper Blodgett (1899), president of American Chicle Co.; Playwright Otto Abels Harbach (No! No! Nanette) was in the class of 1895. In addition Knox boasts three U. S. Ministers, one Ambassador, two Governors, one Governor of the Philippines...
...expanded his service, in 1914 incorporated Mesaba Transportation Co., operated a line from Hibbing to Duluth. In 1924 he joined his lines and some others to form Northland Transportation Co. which a year later was given an exclusive franchise by the Minnesota legislature and then purchased by Great Northern Ry., which paid over $1,000,000 for control.* Wickman sent C. E. ("Ed") Eckstrom to start a line from Chicago to Muskegon, christened it Greyhound Lines...
Engaged. John Marshall Budd, Yale senior, son of Ralph Budd, president of Great Northern Ry., and Frances, daughter of Stanley Hale Bullard (Bridgeport manufacturer) ; at Fairfield, Conn...
...bullfighting, fishing, winter sports. Once he entered the bull ring himself, emerged with several ribs broken. Besides his two novels he has written two books of short stones (In Our Time, Men Without Women'), a satiric novelette (The Torrents of Spring). He is by no means "litr'ry" in talk or thought, but his writer friends include Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Thornton Niven Wilder...
...other long article is entitled "Toward Another War" and is from the pen of Bernard DeVoto, a slightly shopworn bargain from the Saturday Evening Post's lit'ry rummmage sale. It treats of the joys, boons and usifruots of life in the army in war time and paints in glowing terms the aesthetic delights of compulsory prophylaxis and kitchen police and association with the drug store yahoos and greengrocers who comprise our drafted armies. It's harmless and inocuous reading if you like it, but to us represents pretty sad entertainment...