Word: titcomb
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Data provided by Caldwell Titcomb '47, professor of music at Brandeis Universiy, who is preparing the first major history of blacks at Harvard...
Friendly or merely fatuous, Americans seem to be first-naming everyone-lovers and strangers alike-with promiscuous enthusiasm. Even Boston has capitulated. Mrs. Alfred Titcomb, a dowager of Beacon Street, has decreed that henceforth she wishes to be addressed as "Mildred." The champion American first-namer may be Harold Davis, chairman of Georgia State University's journalism department, who says that he knows 10,000 people by their first names; he even teaches a course in how to duplicate this quintessentially American feat. Says Harold: "We are in a first-name society. Few people are called by their last...
Drink deep in Christmas cheer for C. Titcomb...
...Caldwell Titcomb...
...Merry Christmas to Titcomb, Caldwell...