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Died. Alba Marshall Ide, 66, shirt-&-collar tycoon (George P. Ide & Co.); in Troy, N. Y...
...known to the staff as "Goitre") where he raises Irish terriers. At the (now defunct) Engineers' Club he played golf in the 80's. He keeps up his membership in London's Middlesex Golf Club. Last week he retired to his summer home at Chestertown, N. Y. in the Adirondacks. He wears tweedy clothes, habitually mumbles his speech around the stem of a well-caked briar pipe. At Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon where he lunches with staff mates, he prefers Scotch whiskey. Late at night he is sometimes known to burst into song-always...
...easily afford $60,000 to make over their town house into what everyone said was "the handsomest house in Chicago." The hall was 70 ft. long, and Julia had her own "studio." with a private staircase. They could also afford to leave it for summers in Richfield Springs, N. Y., visits to Utica, Manhattan, St. Augustine, Fla., extended grand tours abroad. Their U. S. travels were of course by "palace car" (early Pullman). Julia's plaints of their continual traveling, her vehement assertions that Chicago is her home, "worth all London Paris & New York put together," ring a little...
...Holcombe '06, professor of Government, has resigned as chairman of the department of Government after fourteen years service in that capacity. He will be succeeded by W. Y. Elliott, professor of Government...
Harvard and Yale men already chosen are: 100-yard dash E. E. Calvin 35 and Walsh (Y); 220-yard dash--F. J. Lane '36 and N. P. Dodge '33; 440-yard dash--Warner (Y) and J. M. Morse '34; 880-yard run--J. B. White '34, Sutherland (Y) or J. M. Morse '34; Mile run--Turley (Y) and A. B. Hallowell '34; two-mile run--Miner (Y), Arthur Foote '33 or R. S. Playfair '36; 120-yard high hurdles--Lockwood (Y) and J. C. Grady '33; 220-yard low hurdles--J. C. Grady '33; and Dunbar (Y); shotput...