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Married. Helen Wainwright, 19, able swimmer, onetime (1922) national champion diver; to Leonard Holland, theatre organist; in Dallas...
...donors are: Henry Hornblower, J. J. Phalen, E. L. Geary, J. W. Prentiss '98, H. N. Sweet, C. T. Lovering '02. Ralph Hornblower '11, J. A. Fayne '07, J. S. Dunstean '98, H. C. Sierck, P. B. Skinner, P. W. Brown, A. R. Meyer '10, J. H. Wainwright, and O. E. Weller...
...sure that Harvard will just trample on Princeton and the other football teams after beating Dartmouth," said Gertrude Ederle in an interview with a CRIMSON "reporter yesterday." "You know I won a bet from Helen Wainwright on the Dartmouth game. I felt that Harvard was bound to win, just because it wasn't the newspaper favorite...
...Alaska makes a well-timed appearance. As Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson agrees in the preface, it is a good kind of introduction to "the friendly Arctic" for folk who have never been there, since Author Rossman was a tenderfoot when he took his cinema cameras to the Eskimo village of Wainwright* and settled down for the hard winter of 1923-24. An able newspaperman, Rossman put in his diary, and has here expanded, facts and fresh impressions which an habitue of the North might have omitted as commonplace: that an Alaskan city was called Nome when, in 1849, an Admiralty draftsman...
Died. Rear Admiral Richard ("Fighting Dick") Wainwright, 76, in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C., of heart failure. He was executive officer of the U. S. S. Maine when she was mined in Havana harbor by Spain. When the Spanish commandant ordered his men to strike the Maine's flag, he roared words long remembered in the Navy: "If a Spaniard touches the flag that flies over that wreck, there'll be another wreck in Havana harbor...