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...town and gown into what Student Oliver Wendell Holmes (1825) called "the very dove's nest of Puritan faith." Great preachers flocked there; on Andover Hill was written My Country 'Tis of Thee. Shunning Unitarian Harvard, the school became such a solid Yale "feeder" that in the 1920s Andover men comprised 10% of many a Yale class...
...translations down the toilets. Yet it was also Stearns who steered Andover toward opulence. In 1908 he took over the seminary's buildings when that institution fell on bad times and slunk off to Harvard. He raised $1,000,000 for teachers' salaries, and in the 1920s guided Thomas Cochran ('90), a Morgan partner, in spending more millions for new Georgian buildings that made Andover a showcase. "We're beaten," cried one Exeter teacher. "Exeter can never catch...
...Flying Circus battled to fame in Fokker triplanes. After Germany's defeat, Anthony Fokker slipped back into The Netherlands, taking along six trainloads of tools and aircraft parts, and set up a new plant. His dependable F-VII monoplane spawned the rise of commercial airlines in the 1920s; it was in a modified F-VII that Admiral Byrd made his historic flight over the North Pole...
...little Brazilian cacao port of Ilhéus complain that the place has become overcivilized, and with reason. Take the matter of government. In the past, a sane, orderly rule was established and maintained in Ilhéus by the most efficient of means: gunfire. Now, in the 1920s, there are modernists who say that gunfire is outdated; the new method is the free election. Polls are rigged, of course, to ensure that power remains in the proper hands, but oldtimers see no merit in the innovation; the elections are cumbersome and not at all entertaining...
Died. Lee Hastings Bristol, 69, suave board chairman of Bristol-Myers Co., middle son of Co-Founder William M. Bristol, an advertising enthusiast who put his firm's jingles on the air in the 1920s (later sponsored Duffy's Tavern, Mr. District Attorney) and so, by feeding back up to 26% of sales into promotion, helped build the small pharmaceutical house into a $160 million-a-year top drugmaker; of a heart attack; in Point Pleasant...