Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peter Morton Whitman, of Katonah, New York...
...looks like a lean and sinister clown, loves mystery, theatrics. Bald, he often wears a skullcap, a shawl over his shoulders. His early books were such immediate failures he thought seriously of abandoning writing. At 40 (he is now 61) he learned English and translated Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman into French. Gide's chief claim to notoriety is his sympathetic exposition of homosexuality. His consuming curiosity once nearly cost him his life when he followed an African native marriage procession into the forbidden chamber. Some of his (translated) books: Strait Is the Gate, The Counterfeiters, The School...
Peter Morton Whitman, of Katonah, New York...
Oscar Sutermeister '32 and P. M. Whitman '32 will continue in the positions which they held this year while C. McK. Norton '29 will be the graduate member of the committee. A seventh committeeman will be chosen next year from the class...
...fellows of the board of overseers, the members of all the older classes, and the three classes in the University with '81 sons of the class. At 1.30 o'clock the class will join the procession in the alumni exercises, after which they will be entertained by E. H. Whitman '81, and Mrs. Whitman at their home...