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...been of different temperament, Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen of Harvard University might well have rested content with his fame as a scholar. He was a bookish bachelor of mild manner and quiet voice, whose name had become one of the best known in the faculty. To his students, he was "Matthie," always ready to receive them in his book-lined study, always prepared to help them if he could. To scholars, he was the brilliant authority on Henry and William James, and the author of a penetrating book on the times of Melville and Hawthorne, American Renaissance...
Married. Hannah Williams Kahn Dempsey, 37, onetime musicomedienne (1937's Hooray for What? with Ed Wynn), and Thomas J. Monaghan, 38, nightclub entertainer; she for the third time (No. 1: Roger Wolff Kahn, son of the late Financier Otto; No. 2: Heavyweight Restaurateur William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey), he for the second; in Los Angeles...
...Francis Otto Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, jumped to his death early this morning from the 12th floor of the Hotel Manger in Boston...
...their first meeting, the newly-chosen Freshman Jubilee Committee last night elected John Kean, Jr., as their chairman. Thomas J. Madden, Jr., was elected treasurer, and David M. Hersey secretary. The publicity will be in charge of Thomas F. Powers III, and the dance decorations will be handled by Otto F. Grote. Murray Budabin will be in charge of the band...
...appetite of 80 of the freshman had previously been satisfied, however, by 15 gallons of beer at an afternoon cocktall party given by candidates Otto F. Grote, Stephen R. Rubel, John Kean, and Wolcott H. Johnson...