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...President-elect's arrival at Warm Springs climaxed an arduous and eventful week. In Manhattan he had watched Socialite Artist Natalie Van Vleck, who went to work in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dab the finishing touches to his portrait. By going 16 hours at a stretch, he had kept as many appointments as 50 per day. He had found time to address retiring President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and "the Harvard family" at the University's club. He had endorsed the back-to- the-farm movement and Secretary of State Stimson's reiterated Far Eastern policy of nonrecognition...
Died. Colonel William Aiken Starrett, 54, builder of skyscrapers, president of Starrett Corp.; after a series of apoplectic strokes; in Madison, N. J. One of five brothers, all builders or architects, he successively founded Thompson-Starrett Co. (construction), Starrett & Van Vleck architects). Starrett Bros. & Eken, builders of the Empire State Building and nucleus of his holding company, Starrett Corp. As chairman of the War Industries Board's construction committee, Builder Starrett directed the erection of all cantonments, hospitals. Army bases in the U. S. To Japan he introduced special teel frame buildings designed to resist arthquakes. An articulate champion...
...mathematical with his backswing, monstrously strong at long shots; but he needs his gracious, white- toothed smile for such opponents as Monsieur Vagliano. The latter vanquished André, 6 and 4 in 36 holes, became French Amateur Champion. U. S. contestants who reached the third round: C. E. Van Vleck, Garden City N. Y.; Louis V. Cochrane, Lake Forest...
Memorial Cafeteria.--M. G. Adam '22, A. A. Gelinas 2L., S. C. Jacobson 3L., G. P. Morey '24, A. S. Simmons '24, A. S. Shaplis 3G., H. G. Steele 2G. B., and J. H. Van Vleck...
Edward Burr Van Vleck, Ph.D., LL.D., Dr. Mathematics and Physics, S.D., (Mathematics...