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From a house on Manhattan's East 49th Street last week went news which joined Abby Rockefeller Milton; Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...
...years later he married Grace Thayer Richards, daughter of Harvard's Nobel Prize Chemist Theodore William Richards. Handsome and talented, she has lately persuaded her husband to do a little painting. He likes to motor over Europe, hike in the White Mountains, swim on Cape Cod. But chemistry was his real play. That gone, he is temporarily lost for diversion. To friends who asked why he gave up a great career in chemistry to become Harvard's head he replied: "I guess it's my sense of adventure." His mother thinks the same qualities which made...
...SECOND BULLET-Lee Thayer- Sears ($2). Peter Clancy, with his incomparable "gentleman's man" Wiggar, falls into a first-class murder case when they stop for gasoline at the mansion in the New Jersey hills. Concealment of his identity and the dexterity of Wiggar enable Clancy to mingle with the neighbors, to make friends with a half-crazy animal trainer, to see justice done...
...yard breaststroke--Won by Kenneth B. Hodson '37; second, Phillip H. Thayer, Jr. '36 (E); third, Bertram S. Wolfson '37. Time--34 2-5 seconds...
...courses offered at Harvard in military and naval science are a legacy from the post-war days, when all of us, from William Roscoe Thayer down, were far more convinced of the efficacy of war as a social instrument than we are now. They have followed the trend of the times; originally a pleasant path to a course credit, they have stiffened their requirements, placed more emphasis on the really scientific features of their field, and are now as difficult as the run of courses in the college. This, coupled with the fact that the treat is on the government...