Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victuals still taste good," Horace Button Taft jovially assured 300 of his "old boys" at the New York Yale Club last week. Despite that sign of health the brother of the late William Howard Taft was announcing his retirement within the year as headmaster of Taft School. In a profession studded with Grand Old Men. Headmaster Taft at 73 shares with Groton's Endicott Peabody (TIME, Oct. 28) the distinction of being the grandest of them all. A distinguished, kindly man,'"Brother Horace" has the Taft good humor, the Taft chuckle, the flowing Taft mustache. But because...
...name, it was revealed when he recently married Olive White, his manager, is Lancelot Ross . . . and that's probably what he wrote on his registration blanks at Yale and Columbia . . . Son of a Shakespearean actor, he was born in Seattle . . . and was sent to Taft School in Connecticut for proper eastern bringing up . . . Taft led to Yale and there Lancelot was a track man in '27 against Oxford and Cambridge . . . but being in the Yale Glee Club actually gave him a chance to see oxford and Cambridge...
...made his first trip to Washington as Resident Commissioner. He had no vote in Congress, but he had a voice. That voice soon reached William Atkinson Jones of Warsaw, Va. Representative Jones had been to Manila with the first great Congressional junket in 1905, led by Secretary of War Taft. About the only tangible result of that trip was the betrothal of Representative Nicholas Longworth and Alice Roosevelt. But eight years later, the Democrats took over in Washington and Mr. Jones became Chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee. With Manuel Quezon at his elbow. Chairman Jones wrote...
...Robert Taft Whitman '38, of Greenwich, Connecticut, was announced as winner of the Sophomore Competition at the same time. He will be first assistant manager next fall, and first manager in 1937. Whitman prepared at St. Mark's School...
...Among her onetime pupils: Authors Tess Slesinger (The Unpossessed), Myron Brinig (This Man Is My Brother). Died. Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, 72, famed evangelist; of heart disease; in Chicago (see p. 46). Died. Walter Lowrie Fisher, 73, Chicago lawyer and traction expert, Secretary of the Interior under President Taft; of coronary thrombosis; in Hubbard Woods, Ill. Died. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 78, paleontologist, longtime (1908-33) president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History; suddenly, of a heart attack; at "Castle Rock," his Hudson River home near Garrison, N. Y. At home over the whole range of vertebrate...