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...Minister to Guatemala is Sheldon Whitehouse, an urbane gentleman with naturally wavy hair and a cultivated voice (he is one of the extremely few U. S. diplomatists who have been schooled at Eton). Onetime private secretary of the late great Whitelaw Reid, he married the daughter of Mrs. Charles Beatty Alexander. He served with some eclat as Counselor of the U. S. Embassy in Paris and Madrid. In 1927, as Charge d'Affaires in Paris, he made news by setting detectives to watch over New York's playful Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. No one supposed that Diplomatist...
...Brown Bros, partner, Ellery Sedgwick James, was a classmate of Harriman Partners Edward Roland Noel Harriman, Prescott Sheldon Bush and Knight Wooley. And active, well-groomed Brown Bros. Partner Robert Abercrombie Lovett is the son of Judge Robert Scott Lovett, Jongtime personal attorney and close friend of the late Edward Henry Harriman and now chairman of his Union Pacific. Undoubtedly these connections first caused the firms to gravitate toward each other...
Died. Right Rev. Sheldon Munson Griswold, 69, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago; of a heart and liver ailment; in Evanston...
Robert S. Stryker, enjoying a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship, has recently sent back from Spain a number of water color paintings now on exhibition in Robinson Hall Annex. Although most of the paintings are concerned with the Alcazar Gardens, Seville, there are numerous landscapes from Granada and Majorca. Supplementing this collection is a small exhibit of pencil sketches by Von Ingen of New York City, dealing with American park scenes...
...committee will cooperate in financial relief and will determine a policy of expansion of the activities of the Brooks House in its present fields of endeavor, principally in its social service. The following men compose the committee: Julius Birge '31, 'chairman; T.W. Dunn '31: G.K. Martin '32 and P.M. Sheldon...