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...Brunswick he sends home salmon to his friends, his acquaintances, his barber. Robert Lehman, grandson of Emanuel and son of Philip, married Ruth Owen Meeker, daughter of Ruth Bryan Owen, collects Italian primitives, plays occasionally on the Greentree and Sands Point polo teams with Tommy Hitchcock. John Milton Hancock, long-distance runner at the University of North Dakota, Wartime Naval Commander and supply-purchaser, hunts mountain sheep in British Columbia. He specializes in the affairs of Lehman Bros, clients such as Sears. Loose-Wiles, Jewel Tea, other national merchandise distributors. Mr. Hancock rehabilitated Jewel when the chainstore seemed headed...
...Harvard team will be made up of W. Tucker Dean '37, and Hubert H. Nexon '37, speakers; Vincent Rossi '38, and William Hancock '38, alternates...
Indoor baseball, according to legend, was invented by George Hancock who, one rainy afternoon at the old Farragut Boat Club in Chicago, started a game, using a broomstick for a bat, a boxing glove for a ball. That was in 1888. In the next 40 years, the game crept tentatively out of doors, developed a loose set of rules and modestly acquired a new name: "softball." Suddenly, in 1930, it became a U. S. mania...
Joseph Boggs Beale was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, General John Hancock, many another bigwig. Yet elderly Philadelphians last week could remember but one political story connected with him. When James A. Garfield was offered the Republican nomination against Winfield Hancock in 1880, he wrote to his mother asking her advice. The Professor was having a dish of tea at the Garfield home when the letter arrived...
...Burnham, J. J. Cabitor, J. L. Calvocoressi, S. Cobb, E. B. Cochran, A. H. Corbett, G. F. Cronkhite, R. J. Cumming, N. DeVore, A. C. Drinkwater, F. C. Eaton, K. A. Ehrman, D. Emerson, D. Eriskson, C. W. Foy, R. H. Gannon, H. S. Geodhue, N. Goodwin, W. W. Hancock, F. W. Hatfield, M. L. Hayward, J. Horowitz, J. C. Hunsaker, J. P. Hunsaker, C. G. Hutter, James H. Jackson, M. D. Jacobson, M. V. Jennings, T. Kaplan, W. S. Kemp, Fred Keppel, Francis Keppel, I. Kline, E. T. Ladd, M. E. Lasker, R. C. Maclaurin, L. A. McGowan...