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Spare the Rods. In Salem, Mass., a young mother asked to check her sleeping baby and carriage in a railway baggage car, confided, "I hate to spoil him so young by letting him ride in a Pullman." A Summer's Tail. In Atlanta, a police man held up traffic for what he thought was a funeral procession, let 18 cars pass, all driven by women, then found they were all tailing a heavily loaded meat truck...
Robert E. Rayle, Atlanta, Georgia; Robert B. Ross, Jacksonville, Florida; Kendall G. Russell, Worcester; Peter B. Scamans, Salem; Ralph M. Swanson, Winchester; Walter H. Trumbull, Jr., Weston; Mark Tuttle, Dover, New Hampshire; George A. Van Pelt, Sellersburg, Indiana; Vincent H. Vicario, Providence; Norman S. Walker, Jr., Peapack, New Jersey; Rolf C. Walther, Roselle, New Jersey; Francis deS. Woidich, Cambridge; and Richard W. Zamore, Montclair, New Jersey...
Additional visiting lecturers, who will be held over from the summer and winter terms, include Ralph P. Boas. Visiting Lecturer on Mathematics; Stanley G. Estes, Visiting Lecturer on Psychology; Herman Finer, Visiting Lecturer on Government; Paul A. Palmer, Visiting Lecturer on Government; Ralph Salem, Visiting Lecturer on Mathematics; and Hu Shih, Visiting Lecturer on Chinese...
...deep Bricker platform voice, full of enthusiasm, platitudes and love of his fellow man, stirred crowds wherever he went. He was a man the people at whistle-stops could understand. He was the man for Fostoria, Ohio; for Shawnee, Hennessey, Pauls Valley, Upper Sandusky and Lower Salem. By the time he reached Oklahoma he was happily exhibiting two ten-gallon hats, a lariat, and a pair of spurs, gifts from the grateful citizenry en route. When a critic out front challenged his pronunciation he broke off and said: "Listen, I came off a farm in Ohio...
Days with Punch, Endicott Peabody was born in Salem, Mass, in 1857. His family tree was one of the oldest in the Commonwealth. One of his ancestors was Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Endicott, who hanged Nonconformist Quakers, but was the friend of Nonconformist Roger Williams. Another was Joseph Peabody, owner of one of Salem's finest East India fleets. When "Cotty" was 13, his father became a London banking partner of Junius Spencer Morgan, father of J.P. the First. From 14 to 19, Cotty attended Cheltenham College, preparatory school, where he became "tall, strong as a horse, graceful...