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...Kitteredge was "alert, brilliant, amusing, through, but always inexorable," according to a pupil. "He made us think," said another. "He taught us to respect the dignity of the scholar," said a third. Indeed, there are many such tributes to his teaching, not the least of which came from Monty Wolley, who studied with him in 1912: "I can think of no one who more inspired me as a teacher, stimulated my mind... or gave me more complete happiness...
Many of the old estates had been taken over by 20th Century squires whose bank balances outran their pedigrees. Alongside such ancient names as Wolley-Dod of Edge, Willock-Pollen of Little Bookham, Polwhele of Polwhele and MacLachlan of MacLachlan, Landed Gentry now lists Martins, Bartons and Fishers. It even mentions 700 people in the U.S., including Cinemactress Joan Fontaine and the International Harvester McCormicks of Chicago...
Married. Francis Wolley ("Buss") Bronson, author of a recent first novel, Spring Running, onetime (1922) Chairman of the Yale Record (humorous fortnightly) ; to Miss Helen Louise Silkman, in Manhattan...
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