Word: chubb
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John Kieran's bird hobby goes back to 1912 when he was a protege of a bearded bird-lover named S. Harmsted Chubb, who used to take him for walks in the old wooded family neighborhood just north of Manhattan Island. First practical application of the ornithology John learned came that fall when he ran a chicken farm as a sideline to his first job after graduation from Fordham. He was a school teacher at $10 a week in a two-pupil rural New York school where Brother Leo janitored for $5 a year. At home in the long...
Charles George Hutter '38, of Watertown, New York, was elected captain, yesterday, of the 1937-38 Varsity swimming team. It was also announced that Vernon Henry Struck '38, of Centralia, Illinois, was chosen to lead the 1937-38 Varsity basketball team, and John Chubb Develin '38, of Lynchburg, Virginia, will lead next year's squash racquets team...
John Lyell Dampeer, of Cleveland, Ohio, and John Chubb Develin, of Oxford, England, have been chosen to captain the Freshman basketball and squash teams respectively. Dampeer, holder of one of President Conant's prize scholarships, is a graduate of Cleveland Heights High School. Develin prepared at Middlesex School, where besides squash, he played football and baseball...
Died. Sir Cecil Chubb, First Baronet of Stonehenge, 58; of heart disease; in London. He purchased Stonehenge, England's famed megalithic monument, for $50,000 in 1915, later presented it to his country...
Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy; Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War; Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico; Laird Bell Chicago attorney; Hendon Chubb of Manhattan's insurance firm of Chubb & Son; W. L. Clayton, Houston cotton tycoon; John Cowles, Des Moines publisher; Herman Lewis Ekern, onetime Attorney General of Wisconsin; Philip La Follette, onetime Governor of Wisconsin; Mills Bee Lane, Savannah banker; Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois; Orrin K. McMurray, Dean of the University of California's law school; Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan; John C. Traphagen. president...