Word: yaleman
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...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...
...electrician repaired the radio, wrecked the night before by a jealous accordion-player. Doubly disappointed was Walter J. Salmon who had elected to go to the game rather than watch his horse, Dr. Freeland, run in the $25,000 Maryland handicap at Bowie; and Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts, ardent Yaleman of Montclair, N. J. who had not missed a Yale-Harvard game in 30 years; and J. Murray Mitchell who was to have been host to a large luncheon-&-game party at Cambridge. (He had their tickets in his pocket.) But all gathered good-humoredly about the radios in the smoking...
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...
...Haven Hospital, where Sheridan was taken in an ambulance, he was attended by three doctors, one of whom was Dr. Harvey Cushing, famed brain and nerve specialist. The great Yaleman and disciple of the late great Sir William Osler was in New Haven for a surgeons' conference on the day of the game. Dr. Cushing found that Sheridan had a broken neck, said he might live, under artificial respiration, for minutes, hours or days. After 48 hours he died. He was buried with full military honors due a soldier fallen in the Service of his country...
Married. Mrs. Nora Langhorne Phipps, youngest of the five famed Langhorne sisters of Virginia who inspired the (Charles Dana) Gibson Girl* and Maurice Bennett ("Lefty"') Flynn, Yaleman, onetime All-American football star, thrice before married and divorced (Irene Claire, Blanche Shrove Palmer, Cinemactress Viola Dana); in London. Mrs. Flynn knew her husband in Oregon many years ago, was not divorced from British Architect Paul Phipps until last month in London. A zealous photographer who sought to photograph bride & groom was knocked out by husky Mr. Flynn...