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...left a reference in his will to his private papers stored in an ebony chest at the family seat of Auchinleck Castle, Scotland. For generations his descendants rebuffed enquiring scholars and collectors, claimed that the ebony chest had been destroyed. In 1927 Boswell's great-great-grandson, Lord Talbot de Malahide, permitted Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, famed collector of items on Samuel Johnson, to examine the material, eventually sold it to him. An edition of Boswell's private papers, called the greatest literary discovery of a century, limited to 570 subscribers, running to 18 volumes and costing...
...Massachusetts State College, Ph.D. Harvard '27, as lecturer on Motor Vehicle Administration and Driver Control; Arie J. Haagen-Smit, privat-docent of the University of Utrecht, as lecturer on Biological Chemistry; George M. Stratton, professor emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, as research follow in Psychology; Talbot H. Waterman '36 of East Orange, N. J., as Austin Teaching Follow in Biology; and Charles Schweinfurth '13 of Brookline and Louis Williams of Moose, Wyoming, as research associate of the Botanical Museum...
...chances of the Yardling squad have been hurt by injuries and the crowning blow came when it was learned that Talbot Macdonald, considered one of the best running backs on the squad, would be unable to play tomorrow. Macdonald is a former Andover star, and it is thought likely that he will be ready to start the Andover game here next week...
Such facts as these and a myriad more were last week offered to voyagers through the publication of a top-notch little nautical encyclopedia called Ships and the Sea, A Cruising Companion, written by Pay Lieutenant E. C. Talbot-Booth of the Royal Naval Reserve.* A fat little book, it has 750 pages, over 1,000 illustrations. Though compiled from a British point of view, it is international in scope, universal in interest...
Died. James A. Talbot, 56, onetime (1926-30) chairman of Richfield Oil Co. of Calif.; of heart disease; in San Francisco. He served three years (1932-35) in San Quentin Prison for embezzling $100,000 of Richfield funds...