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Died. Harry Johnston Grant, 81, publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, one of the biggest (circ. 361,875) and most prosperous dailies, a onetime textileman who took over from Lucius Nieman in 1919 and made the Journal the chronicle of Beertown, ordering exhaustive local and national coverage, extreme independence (leading liberals to damn it as too conservative, while Wisconsin's late Senator McCarthy dubbed it "the Milwaukee edition of the Worker"), saw his paper play a major role in giving Milwaukee the Braves and one of the nation's lowest crime rates; after a long illness; in Milwaukee...
...form at 9:30 a.m. in the Old Yard. A special feature will be the arrival of the Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42, in a horse drawn carriage reviving a pre-World War 1 custom. Peabody will be escorted from the State House on Beacon Hill to Johnston Gate, outside Massachusetts Hall, by the scarlet-coated National Lancers of Massachusetts. For the first time the Lancers will ride into the Yard itself, entering through Thayer Gate and parading around Memorial Church before the seated guests. Peabody and President Pusey will also speak at the Alumni Association meeting this...
First Marshall David Rockefeller, Jr. will lead the class in the march from the Old Yard, assisted by Second Marshall Wesley S. Williams, Third Marshall C. William Taylor, and Fourth Marshall David L. Johnston. The Harvard Band will provide music for the procession...
Outside the Yard, at Johnston Gate, the Lancers will present arms and the Governor will dismount and walk inside the Yard to meet President Pusey and University Marshal J. Hampton Robb...
...GLYNN M. JOHNSTON...