Word: wilmarth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career began in Chicago, where he worked his way through the University of Chicago, had a try at journalism, got a law degree, hung out his shingle and became an apostle of reform. He was freed from the need of working for a living when he married Mrs. Anna Wilmarth Thompson, a wealthy divorcee. Between cultivating dahlias and collecting stamps, he annoyed Sam Insull, gave his legal talents free to Jane Addams of Hull House...
...speakers included President Lowell, '77, George Lyman Kittredge, '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature emeritus, Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, Edward Ballantine, '07, associate professor of Music, musician, Robert E. Sherwood '18, Wilmarth Lewis, Blaiv Clark '40, President of the Signet, and MacGeorge Bundy '40, Secretary of the Elizabethan Club...