Word: yaleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture was one of a building in Thebes and because of its high walls without windows, its inward sloping lines and its severe plainness it was called a King's Tomb."† The Author. In spite of his name Manuel Komroff is a Manhattanite (1890), Yaleman (of no degree). Having studied engineering, he earned his first pay writing music for the old Kalem cinema, then got a job as art critic. The Russian Revolution lured him to Petrograd, made him editor of the Russian Daily News, then drove him out of the country. Until critics began to hail...
...developing a fuel to compete with oil. Bates had built a development plant in Brooklyn but it was dismantled in 1919 after the Greenpoint fire. His English contracts were broken. Litigation dragged on until 1929. In 1924 Bates had died in France of a paralytic stroke. A Vermonter and Yaleman, consulting engineer at various times for Australia, Russia, Belgium, he was moved to look for a cheaper fuel when his son Lindon Jr. went down on the Lusitania in 1915. His patents, 20 in the U. S., 15 in Canada, including the basic Plauson-Schroeder patent, now belong to another...
...Curry, cheerfully indigent, who looks like a citified farmer, has been traveling with Ringling Brothers Circus. Arnold Blanch, whose wife Lucille is as good a painter as he, lives seriously in the Woodstock, N. Y. artist colony. Unmarried Francis Speight teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy. Brusque, satirical Reginald Marsh, Yaleman, is a son of Muralist Fred Dana Marsh, husband of Sculptress Betty Burroughs, son-in-law of Metropolitan Curator Burroughs. Blond Ogden Pleissner, 27, a precisionist from Brooklyn, is the Metropolitan's youngest painter. Older are: Allen Tucker, 65, who has an independent income, a neat wit, and taught...
...Author, Howard Phelps Putnam, 37, Yaleman, was brought up on a farm in Harvard, near Boston. Like his hero Bill, he has wandered. He first became known to literary critics for his "Ballad of a Strange Thing," which appeared in the American Caravan in 1927. After the publication of Trine in 1927 Epicist Putnam went West, lived in Santa Fe, became closely associated with New Mexico's connoisseur Senator Bronson Cutting. He now lives in Sandy Springs, Md., is interested in senatorial politics, is engaged in composing some of the major narrative portions of his poem...
Honored, Eugene Meyer, Yale 1895, governor of the Federal Reserve Board; with the Montclair Yale Bowl, awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his 'Y' in life"; at the nth annual party of the Montclair (N. J.) Yale Club in "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn."* New award: the Montclair Faculty Plate, to English Professor William Lyon Phelps. 66. The Montclair Scholastic Cup of 1931 goes to Rufus S. Day Jr., 19, Yale senior. Phi Beta Kappa, grandson of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice William R. Day, Secretary of State under President McKinley...