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...have minted him millions of dollars-and countless loyal friends-British-born P. G. Wodehouse once confided that his life has been "greatly devoted to feeling like 30 cents." His first feeling of being below par interrupted the ceremony in which, 79 years ago, the infant Wodehouse was named Pelham Grenville. Said he: "I remember protesting vigorously, but to no avail." His longest bout with misfortune came in 1940 when Plum, as he has been called since schooldays, was arrested by the Nazi army in his home at Le Touquet on the French side of the English Channel. The Nazis...
...major in medieval history with a four-year average of A+, is a nephew of Violinist Fritz Kreisler, and himself an accomplished pianist. One professor calls him "intellectually and personally the most outstanding boy I ever met at Princeton." Fluent in French and German, he was top man at Pelham (N.Y.) Memorial High School, top freshman at Princeton, made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and won a Carnegie grant for summer research at the University of Vienna on his thesis. "The Coronation of Charlemagne" (grade: A+). Known for wearing lederhosen even in winter, Kreisler says that...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Pelham D. Glassford, 76, leathery Washington police chief when the 1932 Bonus Army marched on the Capitol; in Laguna Beach, Calif. A combat general in World War I, Glassford faced the sternest test of his career when 11,000 ragged, jobless veterans descended on Washington to demand bonuses not due them until 1945. He controlled them with tact and courage while Congress marked time, dug $773 out of his own pocket to buy them food...
...Monday, Dean Francis Keppel announced the appointment of two Assistant Professors in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Arthur S. Bolster Jr., a teacher of history at Pelham High School, is the author of "Discipline of Advancing Truth: The Life of James Freeman Clarke." Abraham S. Fischler is presently teaching at Columbia University...
...aftermath of Slickey's debut last week, Osborne took out after the reviewers with Pelham's help. "Not one daily newspaper critic has the intellectual equipment to assess my work," thundered Osborne in Pelham-sponsored interviews. "They were professional assassins." Despite the assassins, The World of Paul Slickey was not yet dead...