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...Mabel Thorp Boardman, 80-odd, able, stately, longtime (25 years) secretary of the American Red Cross, who has watched the membership grow from 300 to some 30,000,000, retired (after 44 years) last week, received a Distinguished Service Medal (first one to be awarded by the Red Cross) and a citation from President Roosevelt for being the "inspirer" of the organization. Victorian Miss Boardman, one of Washington's top society hostesses, who looks amazingly like Great Britain's Queen Mary,* planned to write her memoirs...
...time it seemed that young Publisher Charles E. Thorp (Harvard '25) would be forced to pass up the publication of the third edition of his mammoth work. But he and Editor Glenn D. Angle, onetime chief engine designer for the Air Corps, managed to talk their way past a War Department order which would have stopped all scientific compendia. Finally, after approving the Aerosphere's text (and deleting much recent data which manufacturers had offered), the War Department ordered 300 copies. Publisher Thorp intends to present copies to the Chinese, British and Russian Embassies for forwarding to Chiang...
...Taylor. Taylor gave Dew the whip. Both finished out of the money. They walked back to the jockey room side by side; the moment they reached the doorway, they went at one another in an old-fashioned goto. "Just a flare-up of competitive spirit," explained Chief Steward Tom Thorp, fining each boy $50 instead of setting them down for the rest of the year...
...trusteeship of CORP. Judge Leibell appointed Economist Willard Thorp and Pennsylvania Utility Commissioner Denis Driscoll (TIME, March 11), charged them with administering the system. To the trusteeship of Co. he appointed Trial Lawyer Walter Pollak, competent to sue and retrieve assets. Since SEC had veto power over these appointments, many a utility fan naturally assumed that they were an SEC slate...
Trustee No. 3 is former Amherst Economist Willard Thorp. Having won his corporate spurs as Director of Economic Research of New York's credit-rating Dun & Bradstreet, he has been winning his public spurs filling in as general think-man at the Department of Commerce. Trustee Thorp's province will be administrative, analytical...