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This week not only those Price bondholders who deposited their securities with Banker McGregor but even those who held off will be able to turn in paper for cash on the line. Banker McGregor lives in fancy Chestnut Hill outside Boston, is fiftyish, greying, handsome. New Hampshire-born of his family's eighth generation in this country, he went early to work for Harris, Forbes & Co., became its president in 1930. Now out of investment banking, he takes up his time with golf, directorships, an occasional reorganization, lays the blame for his partial leisure upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Par | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Robert Wadlow's giantism is due to dysfunction of the small, chestnut-like pituitary gland, which lies under the front part of the brain. Among the many results which follow pituitary disorder is muscular weakness. Vast Robert Wadlow must move slowly and deliberately, lest he drop things or stumble. At Shurtleff College, where he is a freshman, he ranks well above the average. His best subject is German. When he graduates he expects to become a lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Strong & Big | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Harding, of Chestnut Hill and Lionel B-32, prepared at Noble and Greenough School. He is captain of the hockey team and was a member of the football team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hedblom Becomes President of Freshmen by Five Vote Margin | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

Despite his defeat at the hands of Tony Shucco in ten rounds at the Boston Garden Friday night, the Squire of Chestnut Hill was inclined yesterday to look favorably through a slightly puffed eye at his ring future. "I proved to my own satisfaction that I am in better shape than when I were the crown -- a bit slower, but in better all round condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jack Sharkey, Noted World's Heavyweight King, Now Serving Boston as Host at Ringside Barroom | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

...yard free style--won by James H. Snowden, 2nd (H); second, William E. Chalecki (H); third, Chestnut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY MERMEN FACE ALUMNI IN FIRST MEET | 12/14/1935 | See Source »

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