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...admitted to the Bar in 1901. He entered the legal department of Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. that year and from 1906 to 1919 was vice president. He is still an Old Colony director, and also sits with the boards of Haverhill Gas Co., Cambridge Savings Bank, Raymond & Whitcomb...
...York Trust assumed the same position in the latter bank. In 1929 he resigned as president, was made chairman of the executive committee. Other of Banker Gibson's experiences include working for American Express Co. after he graduated from Bowdoin and, after that, a vice-presidency of Raymond & Whitcomb, travel agents, which he & friends controlled. During 1919 he was U. S. Red Cross commissioner for all Europe. He lives in Locust Valley, L. I., plays tennis, rides with the Meadowbrook...
...onetime famed play, Shore Acres, was another. Garland was one of the discoverers of Stephen Crane; he admired Crane's genius, deprecated his habits, gave him many an ill-received lecture. He venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them all. On a visit to England, onetime Pitcher Garland met Cricketer Conan Doyle. Each upheld his favorite game: Doyle politely doubted the possibility of throwing a curve. Garland pitched...
When the Raymond & Whitcomb cruise ship Carinthia (chartered Cunarder) with 450 U. S. tourists aboard hove into Leningrad last week, obliging Soviet travel agents appeared, conducted them on a four-day tour (including Moscow) for which each paid $400. This figures out to a total of $180,000, but the Soviet press presently announced that the tourists actually spent $250,000. "One man from Boston," said Pravda, "paid our Government 25,000 rubles [$12,750] for a silver tea set which belonged to the Tsar." Buying began on the very landing pier in a specially erected bazaar, stocked with products...
Travelers, in the know, who as a rule keep several years ahead of the Baedecker tourists and Raymond-Whitcomb enthusiasts have found Losinj. Trau (Petronius's Satyricon) Korcula. Hvar and Dubrovnik-Kupari in Jugoslavije as smart as Brioni and Cap Antibes and without, the sourness of the Lido...