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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Harvey Gushing, 70, world's No. 1 brain surgeon, author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning Life of Sir William Osler (1925), father-in-law of the President's eldest son, James Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in New Haven, Conn. Bright-eyed, white-haired Harvey Cushing's slight & stooped figure was gigantic in neurology (see p. 71). He taught and worked at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale, perfected almost single-handed the techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation...
Engagement Broken. William Edward Dodd Jr., 33, liberal son of the onetime (1933-37) U. S. Ambassador to Germany; and Susan Brownell Anthony II, 25, grandniece of the famed suffragette; in Washington, D. C., four days after it was announced. Mr. Dodd is currently writing the story of his father's experiences in Berlin, Miss Anthony the story of a romance in her great-aunt's life...
Prominent undergraduates formed a "Student Committee to Save Harvard Education," got an approving send-off from the Crimson. Meanwhile Harvard's entire faculty began to hold extraordinary sessions behind closed doors to debate the affair. Conservative Harvard sentiment was summed up by Mathematics Professor Marshall Harvey Stone, son of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone: "I believe the situation now existing is unhealthy to the point of gravity...
...ambassador, not an art director, was Agha's early ambition. A dark, widish man, son of a landowner and tobacco magnate who had kept his Turkish citizenship, he was born 43 years ago at Nikolaev in the Russian Ukraine. In 1917 he was studying at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd, became successively a civil servant under Kerensky, a painter of party posters under Lenin. Five years later, while clerking in his brother's delicatessen shop in Paris, he drifted into designing, soon grew successful in the field of elegant advertisement...
Biggest social blow-off in London since the war began was the wedding of Winston Churchill's big blond son Randolph, 28, to the Hon. Pamela Digby, 19, eldest daughter of horsy Edward Kenelm Digby, Baron Digby. During the service Winston wept, but as he left the Queen Anne style St. John's church in Smith Square he beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph...