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Died. Benjamin Henry Throop, 46, dilettante fourth-generation owner of the Throop Coal Mines (Scranton and Throop, Pa.), heir to a fortune once estimated at $68,000,000, president of the Shepherd Dog Club of America; of an intestinal ailment; in Manhattan...
Thou who dost shepherd the night winds and makes the clouds His chariot, pass along the horizons of our daily lives. . . . Forbid that we should be lured to drink from the goblets of spiced sin or let fall the wreaths of manhood from our foreheads. . . . Through Christ, Amen...
...Wirephoto, review the whole transaction and determine if the AP's credit and the interests of all members have been protected. Neylan: "I demand a record vote." Carl L. Estes of the Longview, Tex.) News, bitingly: ". . . I've had enough of this self-appointed, self-anointed shepherd of the little fellow. " Vote: Tabled...
Died. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 76, physicist, inventor, longtime (1901-31) professor of electromechanics at Columbia University, onetime Serbian shepherd boy; of uremic poisoning following anemia and influenza; in Manhattan. Chief inventions: an inductance coil for long distance telephones; X-ray technique which shortened the exposure time from an hour to a few seconds; a wireless tuning device to overcome interference; an electrolytic rectifier to handle high-frequency signals...
...giving "A Song of Unending Sorrow," translated from the Chinese by Witter Bynner; Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, who will give an excerpt from Maurice Baring's "Essay on Poetry and Moods of the Public"; Henry V. Poor '36, who will give "The Hound of Heaven," by Francis Thompson; Shepherd Robinson '36, who will give excerpts from James Bryant Conant's 1934 Baccalaureate Sermon; Robert A. Robinson '35, who will give excerpts from Charles Evans Hughes' "Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his Ninetieth Birthday"; A. Gilman Sullivan '36, who will give Robert Emmet's last speech at his trial before...