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Latin School's younger graduates may yet do it as much honor as the old Yankees. The College Entrance Examination Board is never surprised when Boston Latin boys top all other U. S. students in Latin, Greek, mathematics. At Harvard they regularly form the biggest and smartest bloc of students. Joseph Patrick Kennedy (1908) is now chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission and many an-other bright Latin School graduate has found his way to Washington...
...Government entrusted its case to Robert Houghwout Jackson, 43, an able but little known small-town (Jamestown, N. Y.) lawyer who was made general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue last year. Mr. Mellon hired Frank J. Hogan, 58, one of the smartest, slickest, most successful lawyers in Washington...
Thus far Mr. Offord has found no takers. With chagrin Sir Bernard and Scotland Yard's smartest inspectors told a Brighton Coroner's Jury last week that, as for Corpse No. 1, they have not been able to determine how, when or where she met Death, or who she was. As for Corpse No. 2, the acquittal of the Dancing Waiter has left Scotland Yard with no candidate for the murderer of Violette Kaye. Said imperturbable Sir Bernard Spilsbury, frankly baffled, "I find myself unable to reach any conclusion...
Elihu Root spends the winter months in Manhattan, the rest in Clinton, N. Y. opposite his beloved Hamilton College where, as "Cube" Root, son of the mathematics professor, he was the youngest and smartest member of his class (1864). Alert, he reads widely, keeps abreast of current affairs. But what he thinks, he keeps almost wholly for those of his "young" intimates who are still alive...
...British favorites, the banks refused to aid. It was predicted that six firms would collapse. Fear spread throughout the City, cutting heavily into the sale of three big new bond flotations. Although settlement day was postponed over last week end, James & Shakespeare was in too deep for even its smartest stockholder. To the wall it went with no inconsiderable part of Garabed Bishirgian's fortune. One other house failed before the banks relented...