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Called "Dieff" by his friends-including Henry Louis Mencken, with whom he was once a cub reporter in Baltimore-Dr. Dieffenbach is short, chubby, lively. He dresses fastidiously, plays tennis, occupies himself with the affairs of his fraternity Phi Kappa Sigma of which he was once national president. Dr. Dieffenbach says he will be not a "religious editor" but an "editor of religion," devoting himself to all trends of all creeds and sects...
...Edward Bok was proud of the fact that he encouraged his sons to make their own decisions, choose their own schools, plan their own vacations. Thus when his firstborn, tall, soft-spoken Curtis, finished at Hill School in 1915 he chose to enter Williams College. There he chose Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, distinguished himself as a varsity first baseman, was tapped for Gargoyle, the honor society whose roster includes New York's Governor Lehman, Massachusetts' Governor Ely. When the U. S. entered the War he chose to quit college for the Navy in which he attained a senior...
...stage roles, he has given three performances each of which possessed a shade more than the mechanical competence which Hollywood demands of subsidiary performers. Son of Frank Jerome Tone, president of Carborundum Co., Franchot Tone went to Hill School and Cornell, where he got a Phi Beta Kappa key and ran the Dramatic Club. He played in stock for a year before Guthrie McClintic put him in the Age of Innocence, with Katharine Cornell. Last winter, Hollywood gossipmongers observed him escorting Joan Crawford, whom he will play opposite in his next picture, Dancing Lady...
...farmhouse near Fort Scott, Kansas, 48 years ago was born George Frederick Zook, son of Douglas and Helen Follenius Zook. In 1902 George Zook entered the University of Kansas, carrying his spare clothing in a shoe box. He worked his way through by driving a hearse. He made Phi Kappa Phi. Five years after graduating he married a classmate, Susie Gant. Specializing in modern European history, George Zook became a fellow at Kansas, an assistant at Cornell, an instructor at Pennsylvania State College, then an assistant professor, then an associate professor, then a full professor. From...
Boas graduated from South Hadley High School. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received his degree today summa-cum laude in Mathematics. Stebbins, a graduate of Newton High School, is being graduated magna cum land with highest honors in English. Campbell, who prepared for Harvard at the Lincoln School, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and is receiving his degree summa cum laude in History...