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...time. Custodian of this prodigy, whose scientific name is Amorphophallus titanum and which is called krubi by the islanders of its native Sumatra, was the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx. Only five times before had Amorphophallus titanum bloomed outside the Sumatra jungle-twice in London's Kew Gardens, once in Holland, once in Germany, once in a botanical garden in Java. During last week's excitement Assistant Curator Wendell Holmes Camp observed that The Bronx's plant was probably the ''most photographed plant in the history of botany...
Charles S. Denny '34, of Brookline, in Geology; Charles H. Fay, of Austin, Texas, in Physics; Daniel B. Aaron, of Cambridge, in English; Charles E. Carr '35, of Maiden, in English; and Charles I. Weir '36, of Kew Gardens, Long Island, New York, in English...
John A. Thierry '36, of Cambridge, Mass., Francis J. Ulman '36, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., Cheves T. Walling '37, of Hubbard Woods, III., Hathaway Watson, Jr. '37, of Chicago, III., Charles I. Weir, Jr. '36, of Kew Gardens, L. I., N. Y., Harold T. White, Jr. '37, of Bedford Hills, N. Y., Joseph J. White, Jr. '37, of Winnetka, III., George W. Wickersham, 2d '35, of Cedarhurst, L. I., N. Y., Charles C. Wright '37, of Cambridge, Mass., William S. Zeman '36, of Hartford, Conn...
...Kew Gardens...
Died, Henry C. Bohack, 66, president of H. C. Bohack Co., Inc., a chain of 740 grocery stores; of heart disease; in Kew Gardens, L. I. Born the son of a German farmer, he went to the U. S. when he was 17, got a job clerking in a grocery store for $7 per month & board. In three years he saved enough to go into business with a friend, whose sister he later married. He opened the first store under his own name in 1887 at 1291 Broadway, Brooklyn. It is still in operation. In later years he told...