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After the great race, Dodds hardly heard the barrage of congratulations. "I must catch a train," he said, "I'm really excited - I'm to preach a sermon tomorrow at Goshen, Ind." Now, the man who prefers gospel teaching to mile records joins Torrey Johnson's Evangelistic group in Los Angeles - the town where another dashing character won lasting fame as an evangelist: the late, white-robed Aimee Semple McPherson...
George D. O'Day, John Burton and Doug Danner led the upperclass team, while the two Freshman boats contained Owen C. Torrey, Marshall Taylor, Hilary H. Smart, and David L. Richardson. Smart's boat finished first in its division, white Terrey's ended up second...
...GERTRUDE TORREY LANKESTER...
Most of his other big jobs were as a helping hand. In 1937 he became first secretary, then assistant, to the Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps, Thomas Holcomb. Last spring his friend, Major General Philip H. Torrey, asked for him as assistant division commander of the First Marine Division, then in training at New River...
...Blacksmith." Most convincing of these were some people bearing the respected Boston name of Hancock. Interested in authenticating the legend once and for all, Whit more supervised a minute scouring of the Cambridge archives and concluded that Dexter Pratt was the most logical hero of Longfellow's poem. One Torrey Hancock, whit more found, did build the house and operate the smithy; but he sold out to Pratt in 1823, twelve years before Longfellow was appointed to Harvard...