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...girls. Then in 1918, while Dr. Page and a son were with the A. E. F. in France, Ruth met quite by accident Victor D'Andre, husband of Pavlowa, at a Manhattan Sunday-night concert. He suggested that she tour with the Pavlowa company in South America. Followed a swift decision, passports, and at the age of 15 Ruth Page was a trouper...
...Aeronautics), Arthur Burton Rascoe (1911-13) now associate editor of Plain Talk), Lawrence H. Whiting (1913, now president of Indiana Limestone Co.), Charles Glore (1910, now manager of Field, Glore & Co., investments). And in the class of 1907 Barber Bratfish well knew the stripling figure of Harold Higgins Swift, now vice president of Swift & Co. (packers) and still a familiar figure at the university, of whose board of trustees he is president...
...Many of the great men the university will bring forth are now young men on their way," said Mr. Swift last week while discussing what he and Barber Bratfish and all other good Chicago University men had most in mind?the induction of Chicago's new president, the youngest big- university president in the land...
Respectfully conscious, too, are Chicagoans that it is a civic honor to be on the university's board of trustees, now 29 strong. Besides such generous, longtime trustees as Julius Rosenwald, Martin Antoine Ryerson and Chairman Swift, who all live within a few blocks of the campus, and such illustrious out-of-towners as Charles Evans Hughes of Manhattan, George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington and Steelman Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland (elected last week), the board includes new-risen leaders of business and finance like President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum...
...trustees and by five-score other college presidents, including his father, and by the faculty. (In store for Hutchins Sr. and Trustee Ryerson were honorary LL.D's.* Also preceding him were delegates from leading learned societies, education boards, foundations. After the grave march to the chapel, Inductor Swift conducted ceremonies of which his own short speech was a major part...