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...January 16, the Library received the second gift, a bequest of 176 rare volumes left to the Library by the late Dr. W. S. Thayer '85, former member of the Board of Overseers. Despite its small size, this collection is of great interest, and contains a number of incunabula and several Aldine editions of the Classics. There are also some unusual items of Americana, such as the first book printed in Connecticut, the Saybrook "Confession of Faith," New London...
...cash bid from $11,000,000 to $8,250,000-$5,625,000 for the First National and $2,625,000 for Guardian National. The R. F. C. sat through a quiet Washington Sunday. The bankers-Clifford B. Longley, Wilson W. Mills, Dr. Fred T. Murphy, James Thayer McMillan-shuttled between Detroit and Dearborn all Sunday. The sun set. The R. F. C.'s 6 p. m. deadline for a yes-or-no answer came & went. There was the Ford proposition. The bankers could take it or leave it. Before midnight they took...
...Parker, Milman Parry, A. S. Pease '02, Henry Pennypacker '88, W. W. Perkins '22, R. H. Pfeiffer, E. K. Rand '94, P. E. Raymond, B. L. Robinson, Daniel Sargent, George Sarton, W. E. Schevill '27, H. M. Sheffer '05, P. A. Sorokin, T. E. Sterne, J. B. Thayer '20, P. H. Tufts, H. M. Turner '06, J. A. Walz, S. B. Warner '12, H. B. Washburn '91, B. J. Whiting '25, Samuel Williston '82, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Wilson, B. F. Wright, Jr., and C. H. C. Wright...
...Frank Herman Schofield, retired, who preceded him as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, knew much more about seagoing strategy. Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase, who retired last week, was much better versed in ordnance. But "Reddy" Leigh has the all-around experience of the kind which made Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan a magic name. He was born 62 years ago near the Mississippi delta. An Annapolis graduate, he served aboard a collier, later on a patrol boat, off Cuba during the Spanish War. He sat on the board of inquiry which failed to discover why the Maine sank. During...
...cursing, speaks Spanish with no accent at all. He is quiet in public, precisely dressed, has never been interviewed and likes to be left alone. His name appears neither in Who's Who nor in the New Orleans Social Register. His daughter Doris two years ago married Roger Thayer Stone of Boston, last summer furnished Mr. Zemurray with a grandson at 56. His son, Samuel Jr., last year played tackle on Tulane's football team, was its light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish...