Word: varnum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art came a routine Press announcement last week. Following its new policy of buying contemporary works of U. S. artists, the museum had acquired five canvases-Disappointed Fisherman by Henry Varnum Poor from the Montross Galleries and four others chosen from the current biennial display at the Whitney Museum: Blue Heron by Jonas Lie; In a Cafe by Adolphe Barie; Union Square by David Morrison; Delaware Water Gap Village by Louis Michiel Eilshemius...
...Varnum Lansing ("Wilkie") Collins is Princeton's secretary; Frederick Leroy Hutson its onetime registrar. Adam Leroy Jones is director of admissions at Columbia; George Dobbin Brown was librarian at General Theological Seminary. Princeton teachers but not "preceptor guys" were Scientists Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Owen Willans Richardson. Variously famed are Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham (Yaleman), Novelist Maxwell Struthers Burt, Songman Sigmund Spaeth and his crew-coaching, English-teaching half-brother John Duncan, Donald Clive Stuart, adviser of the Triangle Club, Charles William Kennedy, retired chairman of the Committee on Athletics...
...Duff" Duffield was graduated the same year as the late Author Jesse Lynch Williams, the late Georgia Publisher Boudre Phinizy, Alonzo Church, vice-chancellor of New Jersey, Dr. Evan Evans, rich Manhattan physician. Lawyer Theodore Wilson Morris Jr., partner of Democrat John William Davis, and Varnum Lansing ("Wilkie") Collins, Princeton's Secretary. "Duff" was celebrated for an oration called "Scotch Granite," extolling Princeton's early President John Witherspoon. With generous gestures and booming voice, he delivered "Scotch Granite" whenever asked, passing it off many a time as extemporaneous. Because Edward Duffield's large bulk was mounted heavily upon large feet...
Died. Henry Varnum Poor, 52, Manhattan lawyer, board chairman of Poor's Publishing Co. (Poor's Manuals: finance reference books) ; by accident while cleaning a shotgun; at Andover, Maine...