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...petitions received by Robert Saltonstall, Jr. '33, chairman of the Committee on Freshman Affairs, each signed by 25 members of the class, are as follows: For president, William Charles McCarty, of Arlington; Franklin Plummer Whitbeck, of Bronxville, New York. For vice-president, Edwin Ide Brainard, of Arlington; Richard Woolen Emory, of Baltimore, Maryland; Thomas Ferguson Locke, of Boston; Arthur Stanwood Pier, Jr., of Concord, New Hampshire; David Daniel Scan-nel, Jr., of Jamaica Plain. For Secretary-treasurer, Donald Armstrong, of West Roxbury; Delavan Carlos Clos, of New York, New York: Lee Perot Howard, of Larchmont, New York...
...Green Hills Farms, a big, fashionable apartment hotel near city limits, went Francis A. Donaldson III, a muscular youth of 25 with considerable social èclat. He went there to try to settle a long quarrel with Horace Allen, a retired and impoverished woolen goods manufacturer, and his son Edward, 23, one of the ablest gentlemen riders in the East. Both the Donaldsons and the Aliens knew that young Donaldson and Rose Allen, 18, were lovers. Donaldson and her brother had been schoolmates at Haverford and bitterly disliked each other. As the altercation grew heated, Father Allen said afterwards. Francis...
...that won for Yale (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). This year, still Yale's greatest back, small Albert J. ("Albie") Booth is also Yale's captain. Although he has seldom been injured, and never seriously, he spends a good part of the time sitting on the bench, wearing an oversized woolen hood which makes him look like a gnome, while Yale's other able backs?Lassiter, Crowley, Heim?do most of the work. So far this season it has not been necessary for authorities to segregate Booth from curious sportswriters, for the Yale coaching staff to insist that Booth is "just...
Deck chair gossips remarked that Mile Laval's complexion is as unusually dark as her father's; that she stains half her fingernails blood red; that she has a sports ensemble consisting of yellow crocodile shoes, a tip-tilted red hat, tight black woolen dress and Scotch plaid coat. "I send Mother a radiogram every day," confessed Josette, "to inform her of the state of Father's temper and health...
...Petersburg (Leningrad), because his father ran a cotton mill there. The Gerhardi children were naturally polyglottal; they learned Russian and German from their nurses, French in school, English from their parents. Their Fraulein "used to take the five of us for walks and she dressed us so warmly, tying woolen hoods over our heads, that by the time the fifth was dressed and ready for an airing the first was nearly swooning, and either screamed hoarsely with resentment or choked in his padded coat and fur collar raised over the hood. As a result of this we always caught chills...