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Early one morning last week in the gashouse district on Manhattan's lower East Side, a neat, grey-haired watchman named George Preston, 47, was caught setting fire to a rubbish heap under the stairs of a tenement house whose occupants lay sleeping. Watchman Preston, once a probationary fireman at Lynn, Mass., tearfully told police he took a few drinks every time he got a headache, set fires for excitement every time he took a few drinks. When he accompanied them to The Bronx, pointed out nine buildings he had previously fired, police believed they had cleared...
...Preston Bradley, son of a blacksmith of Linden, Mich., preached his first sermon at 15, studied law and obtained a D. C. L. degree, then returned to the church as a Presbyterian student pastor. Before he even got around to studying theology, Preston Bradley withdrew from the Presbyterian Church, began preaching independently, set up Peoples Church as an "all-sectarian" group in a Chicago theatre. By 1926, when he built a $750,000 church on the North Side, Dr. Bradley had found Unitarianism to his taste, affiliated his congregation with the American Unitarian Association. Peoples Churchgoers contribute...
John T. Dunton '38 was elected president of the Harvard Engineering Society at a reorganization meeting held last night in Pierce Hall. Other officers include David G. Chase '38, vice-president; Preston R. Clark '39, secretary; and Paul R. Vogt '38, treasurer...
...main billing of the evening, "Sea Devils," goes in for the usual he-man McLaglen activities with the Coast Guard offering a convenient excuse for several good shots of icebergs, ships in distress, breeches buoy, and dozens of manly blows between the smiling Tim O'Shay, (Preston Foster) and Bo'suns Mate Malone (McLaglen). Ida Lupino as "Doris," Malone's daughter, acts as a rather insipid if adequate apex of the eternal triangle over which Malone, the father, tries to exercise parental influence. In spite of the overworked sickbed, hero, and may-the-best-man-win falderol the picture...
Died. William Preston Johnson Gibson, 57, famed oldtime society playboy, son of Louisiana's late Senator Randall Lee Gibson, nephew of the late Chief Justice Edward Douglass White; of heart disease, complicated by uremia; in The Bronx. He successively married and was divorced by Minna Field, niece of Chicago's late Marshall Field; Grace McMillan Jarvis, granddaughter of Michigan's late Senator James McMillan; Mrs. Beatrice Rogers Benjamin Pratt, granddaughter of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Evelyn Harris Spaulding of Haverhill, Mass. He squandered $4,000,000 of his wives' money on parties...