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Peter Gram Swing of Westport also claims a European preparation although he has spent the last three years in this country while his father covers...
Died. Lillian D. Wald, 73, famed founder of New York City's Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service; after a long illness; in Westport, Conn. Born of a well-to-do German-Jewish family, Nurse Wald spent most of her life in Manhattan's lower East Side, raised fabulous sums to improve its lot. A militant liberal, she supported women's suffrage, labor movements, pacifism during World War I, Al Smith in 1928, Roosevelt...
...Westport, Conn, home, normally cheerful Helen Adams Keller, famed blind deaf-mute, observed her 60th birthday as "a day of mourning." Through her secretary she explained: "The world is in such a state I cannot be gay by any manner of means...
From the Class of '41 were named Benjamin A. Barnes of Chicago and Winthrop House; Joseph P. Lyford of Westport, Connecticut and Lowell House; Alan Gottlieb of Winnetka, Illinois, and Kirkland House; Charles Gillfix, Jr. of Revere; and Harry Hornblower, Jr. of Boston...
Alan F. Clifford '41 of Peace Dale, Rhode Island and Arthur H. Northrup '42 of Indianapolis, Indiana received the Samuel Sewall scholarships which were founded in 1698. The Mary Saltonstall scholarships were given to Joseph P. Lyford '41 of Westport, Connecticut and Edward J. Pols, Jr. '40 of Newark, New Jersey. These awards were established in 1733 for "Juniors and Seniors in Harvard College (always dissenters...