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...Chester B. Jr. 18 167 5.10 Deerfield Bronxville, N. Y. McMillan, Donald B. 29 160 5.11 New Prep Brookline Mayersohn, Arnold L. 18 155 5.10 Albany Academy Albany, N. Y. Robinson, Lynn M. 19 177 5.11 Willoughby High Cleveland, Ohio Spitzer, Joseph B. 18 150 5.11 Cambridge Latin Cambridge Thayer, Philip 18 167 5.10 Milton Academy Worcester Thomson, George G. Jr. 18 172 6. St. Mark's New York City Tibbetts, Walter I. Jr. 18 210 6. Choato Winchendon Tyng, William W. 18 160 5.9 Kent Jamaica Plain Witmer, William B. 19 170 5.9 So. Pasadena High Pasadena, Calif. CENTERS...
Science itself might almost have predicted the names of those to whom all this appealed. Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Edgar Lee Masters, Burton Rascoe, John Cowper Powys, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, Harry Leon Wilson and Tiffany Thayer were present one night at a dinner given in Fort's honor by Publisher J. David Stern. Fort himself said almost nothing, quietly sipped ginger ale. The others enthusiastically laid plans for a Fortean Society which would propagate Fortism to the ends of the earth. The exhilaration of that dinner passed. In 1932 Fort died in The Bronx...
Last week Fortism had its renaissance in Vol. 1, No. 1 of a slim journal called The Fortean Society Magazine, edited by Tiffany Thayer. The lead article, written by Publisher Thayer, purported to prove that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were "murdered"-i. e., went astray in the Pacific because geodesists do not really know how to make accurate maps of the earth's surface. A black-bordered rectangle bore the legend: "These honored dead were Forteans: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - LINCOLN STEFFENS." The magazine also announced that astronomers played down a recent eclipse of Venus by the moon...
Dennis F. Maguire, Brockton--Thayer Academy...
Richard P. Sprague, Bridgewater--Thayer Academy...