Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. David ("Winkle") Brooks, 26, son-in-law of Vice President James Andrew Moffett of Standard Oil of California, nephew of Lady Astor and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson; when he fell from a window of his Park Avenue apartment; in Manhattan. His wife's mother, Mrs. Adelaide Taft McMichael Moffett, died two years ago in the same...
...Robert Taft Whitman '38, of Greenwich, Connecticut, will succeed Walter H. Page, 2nd '37, as Varsity football manager, it was announced after the game in New Haven. As winner of the Sophomore competition last year and assistant to Page this fall, his succession to the Varsity post is automatic. Whitman is a graduate of St. Mark's School...
23rd. Got down to New Haven Saturday morning in three hours ten minutes. A weather eye for blue uniforms in dark Fords on the way but no mishap. Ten thousand men of Harvard cluttering the lobby of the Taft. Steering my love through the swirl and, just for fun, the open-air trolley out to the Bowl. Gulping excitement before the game that lasted till Yale's second score and then died into despair but came bounding back again with the second-half surge. My voice gone midway the third period, creaking come on, come on, come on, come...
...campus tonight is crowded with old grads. The only topic of conversation is the game tomorrow. Such gathering places as the Hotel Taft lobby and the Graduate Club are scenes of unusual festivity and gayety. The air is pervaded with a keen excitement and strains of Yale and Harvard football songs reach the ear from all quarters. The only anxiety which is in evidence is over the weather situation, as rooters for both sides have absolute confidence in the powers of their respective teams. Eyes are constantly turned toward the sky where a misty moon gives some hope...
...situations crop up in the fundraising business. Once Tamblyn & Brown were getting nowhere with a drive for Williams when they happened to print part of the college song. The Mountains, in a solicitation letter. That drew a nice flutter of checks. Horace Dutton Taft wanted to raise $2,000,000 for Taft School but it was pointed out to him that the school was his private property. Headmaster Taft generously deeded the school to his trustees and Tamblyn went ahead with the drive...