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...young fellow from Maine graduated with honors from Harvard College. The next year he tried Law School but research through musty legal tomes held little attraction for a lover of good company, good conversation, good wine. So Charles Townsend Copeland turned to journalism and worked on most of the Boston papers of his day. Finally, ten years after his graduation, Harvard called him back to become an instructor in English literature and composition...
...Charles Townsend Copeland, known affectionately among generations of Harvard men as "Copey," will give his annual reading of selected English and American verse, Wednesdaynight at 7:30 in the Upper Common Room of the Union...
Oldest shuffler was 82-year-old Edward Ranney, retired postal clerk from Kenmore, N. Y. Youngest was 17-year-old Dick Townsend of Grand Ledge, Mich. But the player who attracted the largest crowd was Open Champion Dwight K. Hubbard, 51, of Janesville, Wis. Champion Hubbard, onetime football coach, has been shuffling for ten years, has won the national championship six times. He already has more medals and ribbons than he can shake a shuffle-stick at. At week's end, it looked as if he might win another-if it would ever stop raining in Florida...
...Veazey Strong, long overdue for duty away from Washington, had been transferred from the top of the General Staff's War Plans Division to command of the VII Corps Area at Omaha. His successor was a 52-year-old, brand-new brigadier general: straight-lipped, shock-haired Leonard Townsend Gerow (pronounced jehr...
...annual reading by Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, scheduled for tonight, has been postponed until after the Christmas vacation, the Union Committee announced last night...