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...Corliss, Chairman, Miss Winifred Wrenn; T. F. Martin, Miss Elinor Roger; George Bennett, Miss Frances Kelly; Melvin Gerofski, Miss Dorothy Perry...
Divorced. Charles ("Back-to-Nature") Garland, founder of the April Farm love-colony cult; by Mary Wrenn Garland, at Barnstable, Mass. Mr. Garland, famed refuser of a $1,800,000 legacy, once wrote a letter to his wife: "You probably remember the limerick about the young lady named Perkins, who pickled her internal workings with gherkins. Many, if not all, of those involved in the law, pickle their consciences therein. The fair face of justice must be sought elsewhere...
...days when the late Reginald Vanderbilt, as a rakish Yale student, entertained the citizens of New Haven with nocturnal thunderings from his red racing car, his classmates remembered with respect a Harvard athlete who, a few years before, had stormed their fort with every crimson team-one Wrenn, Robert. He had played on the baseball nine; he had been a crack hockey forward; a resolute and heady quarterback-beyond question as good an all-around athlete as had attended any eastern college for perhaps a generation. His friends lost money to him at golf. Before Reginald Vanderbilt had left college...
...been born with a superior quickness and accuracy of muscular response, he seemed for a while unbeatable. In 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897, he held the title. In 1894 a scorching Irishman named Goodbody beat the speedy Hovey, the rare Hobart, and Larned the Nonpareil, but when he met Wrenn he met his finish. In 1897 a strapping Englishman named Eaves (whose name, people said, was really Heaves), crossed the sea and beat the pride of the States, but Wrenn made him drop games like so many...
When the Spanish-American War broke out, Wrenn and Larned, who had volleyed shots in many a heated finals, shot a volley together in Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Wrenn got the typhoid fever. Coming home, he bought a Stock Exchange Seat in 1900 for $50,500, the highest price then on record. For a while he was the Board Member for Day & Heaton; later, with his two brothers he formed the firm of Wrenn Bros., No. 39 Broadway, of which he was a special partner at the time of his death...