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...Alanson H. Sturgis, Jr., Milton--Milton High School...
Professor Stowell's Hall has since been blossoming with Brazil's Ambassador Oswaldo Aranha volunteering to send five Brazilians, a Committee for Mexico promising three fellowships, onetime U. S. Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton donating one for Great Britain. Pan American Airways has offered free plane transportation to 20 Latin American students. Last week Promoter Stowell, announcing that the first Hall of Nations fellowship had been awarded to 22-year-old Jan Bazant of Brno, Czechoslovakia, made ready to sail for Europe to put the Hall of Nations over in an even bigger...
...when the Cathedral Chapter met for general assembly, Dean Bratenahl, enfeebled at 73, had lately suffered an attack of coronary thrombosis. The Chapter, a board of trustees including such Episcopalians as onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, onetime Under Secretary of State William Richards Castle, onetime Ambassador to Great Britain Alanson Bigelow Houghton, retired Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, Senate Chaplain ZeBarney Thorne Phillips, was asked on the motion of Trustee Pepper to terminate Dean Bratenahl's incumbency, tender him the offices of dean emeritus and titular chairman of the building committee. With all but the foregoing...
...mirrors which are the world's biggest pieces of glass (TIME, April 12, 1934). Corning is a closely-held, privately-owned company dominated by the Houghton family, glass makers since one Amory Houghton built a glass plant in Somerville, Mass, in 1851. Nominal head of the company is Alanson Bigelow Houghton, who was U. S. Ambassador to Germany (1922-25), later U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1925-29). At 72, the onetime Ambassador has turned over active direction to his son Amory Houghton, 36-year-old Harvard graduate who worked in the glassblowing department before becoming a company...
...William Alanson White of Washington, No. 1 U. S. practicing psychiatrist: "Dangerous business...