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...five speakers will be Bishop Francis McConnell, of New York City; the Reverend Michael Ahern, of Weston College; the Very Reverend Frederick Clifton Grant, Dean of Seabury-Western Divinity chool; Mr. Clarence E. Pickett, of Philadelphia, Secretary of the American Friends' Service Committee; and Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School...
...Philadelphia bankers become college presidents. The head of Virginia's College of William & Mary, John Stewart Bryan, is a newspaper publisher. Last week the University of Maryland, on the highway between Baltimore and Washington, found a new president in its long-time football coach, fuzzy-haired Harry Clifton Byrd...
...copper kings at the age of 21, Thompson traveled East to peddle his claims. Wall Street would not listen, State Street was almost as inhospitable, and he was nearly at the end of his resources when he managed to get an option on the $250,000 Shannon Mine, in Clifton, Ariz, for $500 cash. He borrowed a last $5,000 to hire a private car and take a party of brokers to inspect the property. Thereafter wealth flowed in, much of it in speculation whose intricacies Author Hagedorn describes in understandable, unsensational terms...
...Clifton Ferdinand Kann '37, of New York City, has been elected assistant Varsity baseball manager for this year. During his Senior year he will be Varsity manager...
Witness Edna Ferber has called it "chie" to attend the trial. Enzo Fiermonte declared it a "knock-out," while Dolly Madison of the Young Republicans brought her knitting and completed only three stitches. Clifton Webb called it "heart-breaking" and Jack Benny was assured "this was serious business." Lynn Fontanne thought Hauptmann a handsome young man, while the former Mrs. Jack Dempsey was sorry for him whether he was "guilty or not." Hence, whatever Cleric Burns, the interrupter on Tuesday, tried to say, seemed quite immaterial...