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...every recent Red Cross dollar was spent, of what use every Red Cross worker is, the wisdom of every Red Cross operation. Chairman Payne, as he remarked last week, "is more or less on trial." His "trial" judges, acting for the organization's Central Committee, are Eliot Wadsworth, Boston financier, onetime (1921-25) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; George Eaton Scott, Chicago steel founder, a fisherman (past president of the Izaac Walton League); and Mrs. August Belmont, Manhattan dowager. They expect, as does he, that he will soon know enough facts to purge the Red Cross of inconsequential expenses...
...using records left from measurements of 2000 Harvard students between the years 1870-80, he was able to secure extensive anthropometric records of about 400 pairs of fathers and sons. Medical examination records at Wadsworth House gave him another 1600 couples, in which, however, only statures and weights were recorded...
Died. Joseph Gilbert Thorp, 78, Boston lawyer, onetime president of the Massachusetts Prison Association, oldtime (1870) Harvard baseball player, amateur golfer, husband of Annie Allegra Longfellow, 74, who is the last surviving daughter of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* in Cambridge, Mass...
...record jump of 24 ft. 1-4 in. by R. B. Donner in the broad jump was not allowed by Referee Wadsworth in view of the favoring wind, and Harding's 198-foot performance with the spear was like-wise not allowed...
...Hayes, B. S. Hurlbut, W. E. Ladd, Lindsley Loring, E. F. McClennen, L. W. McGuire, George Megrew, C. G. Mixter, H. M. Pearson, W. L. Pierce, W. C. Queriby, H. H. Richardson, G. B. Roorbach, P. L. Spanlding, N. R. C. Stephenson, M. L. Talbot, P. M. Tucker, Eliot Wadsworth, Charles Walcott, John Ware, C. E. Ware Jr., W. S. Warrier, T. T. Whitney Jr., and P. C. Wolfer...