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...Allow me to congratulate you for the interesting biographical sketch of John Hays Hammond in the May 10 issue. How often have we heard his name without any very full knowledge of his extraordinary career...
...graduate in the top tenth of their classes (the P. B. K. qualification) should not, however, despair of attaining post-graduate eminence. Let them consider the following college graduates who are not Keymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, J. Pierpont Morgan, Clarence Dillon, Sinclair Lewis, John Hays Hammond Jr., Arthur Curtiss James, William Allen White, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Albert C. Ritchie, Gifford Pinchot, Robert LaFollette,- Edwin Arlington Robinson...
...evening. E. O. Stimson, the Dartmouth speeder who won the mile and the three-mile, one after the other, in 1876, told of the time when the Orange and Black team from Princeton carried away the first Intercollegiate title from Saratoga. He was followed by Dr. Graeme M. Hammond of Columbia, the iron man of American running. Although he did not figure in the first meet in 1876, it was in the following year that he accomplished the by no means inconsiderable feat of winning the 440 and the 880 and placing second in the mile his own efforts being...
These events participated in by former stars, will be serious in nature. Spice in the half mile will be supplied by G. M. Hammond, Columbia '77, who performed in that year the feat of winning the 440 and 880, besides placing second in the mile. Mr. Hammond has run a mile twice a week for the past five years and six years ago served on the Olympic fencing team...
...black ball at her masthead to show she is a sailing vessel but with no canvas to prove it, moved in and out of New York harbor last week with distinguished company aboard. Inventor Herr Anton Flettner of Kiel, Germany, explained as best he could to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, Naval Architect Frederick Hoyt, Yachtsman Caleb Bragg, Shipbuilder Homer L. Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps and barges at an eight-knot...