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Horace's parents are divorced. His father, Russell Burt, resides in Los Angeles. His mother lived in Omaha until three years ago when she moved to St.Paul where her brother, Benjamin Wright Scandrett, famed railroad lawyer, is vice president of Northern Pacific. Another brother, Henry Alexander Scandrett, is president of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co.For two years Mrs. Burt and her brothers have been quietly, diligently searching for Horace, onetime student in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their search availed them nothing. Finally they resorted to the hope that Horace, who had been a thoroughgoing Post reader, would...
...supposed to put pennies, but his little mistress never had a centavo to drop into the hole; so his savings-bank stomach remained permanently empty." Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow (see p. 16) agreed to be best man at the wedding on Oct. 4 of his nephew, Lawyer Richard B. Scandrett Jr. of Manhattan, and Mary Emma Landenberger, of Philadelphia, newspaper reporter. Legend: Lawyer Scandrett first met Reporter Landenberger when she came to interview him professionally. When she left, said he: "There's the girl I'm going to marry...
...Champions arose to declare that feminine presences had kept the young men mannerly and happy. Co-ed Mary Eikel, for example, had been an able dancing partner for Student Jack Eakin and these two had demonstrated the Charleston to royalty in Siam and Spain. Mrs. Agnes Morrow Scandrett (sister of Dwight W. Morrow, Morgan partner) had been sympathetic and steadying. Mrs. Scandrett thought globe-trotting co-education was "most wholesome...