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FRANCIS W. TOLMAN NEWTON F. TOLMAN Chesham...
...other six: Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman-Dean Richard Chace Tolman of Cal tech's Graduate School; Commissioner of Patents Conway Peyton Coe; M.I.T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton; Dr. James Bryant Conant; Dr. Frank Baldwin Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chairman of the board of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...Irish Army officer named Dan Corry bought the little freak for $250, brought him to the U. S. in 1932 to compete in the military jumping events at the National Horse Show. The pony never went back to Ireland. Arthur Tolman. a New England horse fancier, took a fierce fancy to him, persuaded Captain Corry to sell him for $1,200. Since then, First Attempt -renamed Little Squire-has been the darling of U. S. horse shows, the household pet of his four successive owners: Rider Danny Shea (trainer for the stable of the late Publisher Hugh Bancroft), Copperman Robert...
...21st of her successful presidency. That was modest President Reinhardt's concession to the Manhattan fund-raising firm of Tamblyn & Brown, who needed an Occasion to help them raise $1,000,000 for Mills's faculty budget. President Reinhardt invoked the memory of her predecessor, Missionary Susan Tolman Mills, whose husband bought the school in 1865 and who was its president until she resigned in 1909, aged 83. By week's end far-flung meetings of Mills alumnae, who include Mrs. Hiram Johnson and Mrs. William Edgar Borah, had pledged $252,000 to Mills's endowment...
...around his mathematical edifice. He has done some mending himself, particularly on the shape of the cosmos, and he is glad to have other mathematicians drop in for a little tinkering. Modern relativity theory in fact owes a great deal to the carpentry of Weyl, Milne, Lemaitre, Born, Eddington, Tolman and others. But the good professor keeps a sharp eye on the craftsmanship of his colleagues...