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...first wife, nee Cathleen Neilson, divorced him in 1919. In 1923 he married Miss Gloria Morgan, daughter of Consul-General Harry Hayes Morgan; last year she bore him a daughter. Though still relatively a young man, the world in which he spent his money with such debonair magnificence and through which he raced in his roaring automobiles has largely vanished; even the scenes of his gayeties are being removed. Delmonico's, where he gave numerous dinners, recently closed its doors; Madison Square Garden, at whose ringside his plump beetling face often brooded, has been pulled down...
...groping the Atlantic for 750 miles off the Virginia Capes with a mile of steel cable sagging between them along the ocean floor, last week had a bite. The cable tightened, went taut, snapped. Whatever it had snared was ponderous. Repaired, the cable caught again and soon Diver Fred Neilson of Brooklyn clamped on his helmet, dropped overside like a sinker, 213 feet to the bottom. When he followed his stream of bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years ago in collision. She was lying...
William Allan Neilson, President Smith College LL.D...
Smith College (for women, at Northampton, Mass.) prolonged her commencement exercises into ceremonies observing the college's 50th anniversary. Said President William Allen Neilson: "I look forward to the time when some enlightened man will leave his money to a college which will offer young men opportunities equal to those offered in the best colleges for young women." A series of lantern slides entitled The Circling Years, accompanied by rhymed comment, showed the "meteoric" growth of Smith from 14 to 2,000 students, showed the evolution of female habiliments from trailing black cambric skirts to bloomers, showed...
...Everyone knows," said President Neilson, "that the level of accomplishment of our institutions is kept down more by the number of misfits than by any other one cause, with the possible exception of the scarcity of good teachers. ... I realize the force of the plea that a board of trustees should pay for their own mistakes, but is it they who pay? ... I am inclined to think that early retirement on a pension would in many cases be better economy. . . . But this is a rare practice and needs nerve on the part of an administrator...