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Faculty. An amiable president is Duke's Dr. William Preston Few. Tall, lank, Vandyke-bearded, he waves cheerily to one & all as he strolls about his campus. Once an English professor, he became president of Trinity College in 1910. His campus nickname: "Sis." His fellow townsmen remember that when the children of Benjamin Newton Duke were young?Mary, and "Angy" (Angier), who fell from a yacht tender at Newport in 1923 and was drowned?Dr. Few used to ride with them in their ponycart. Like many another Duke official, he is a Rotarian. A friend of North Carolina's hard...
Died. Mary Desti, 59, friend and biographer of the late great Dancer Isadora Duncan, mother of Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) who is the son of her first husband, Solomon Sturges of Chicago (she divorced him, married Capt. Howard Perch, from whom she later separated); of superabundance of white corpuscles in the blood, a rare disease which she contracted soon after the death of Dancer Duncan in Nice in 1927; in Manhattan...
...third convict, James Raymond, made a similar confession to Warden Preston E. Thomas shortly after the rioting which followed last spring's conflagration. Harrowed by remorse, he asked to be placed in solitary confinement. There he hanged himself with his blanket that night. Another prisoner was placed in the same cell and warned that the dead face of the suicide would stare down on him. Next morning this man, James Maloney, admitted having supplied candles to start the blaze, denied knowing what they were to be used for. He will be indicted after the State of Ohio has dealt...
...Wichita, Kan., Don Preston appeared in court, arraigned for the second time on a liquor charge. Penniless, he had hitchhiked over 1,100 miles from San Diesro, Calif...
...Strictly Dishonorable" has shown that its a comedy of modern American life it is quite supreme. Preston Strugess has injected into the one and only good play that he has written a most pleasing balance of humor and satire that makes one chuckle and laugh out loud alternately for three acts. He deals with a somewhat risque theme in a very restrained manner. In fact the whole play is delicately fine and thoroughly pleasant throughout...