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Barry Wood was the Crimson's All-American Dean's List scholar athlete of yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman, Robert Benchley '12, and many more...
Divorced. Robert Silliman Hillyer, 48, 1933's Pulitzer Prize poet, Harvard's successor as Boylston professor of rhetoric to the famed, retired Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland; by Dorothy Hancock Tilton Hillyer, 36; after 17 years of marriage; in Reno...
...known group includes Paul Perkins, Swede Anderson, George Hibbard, Steve Mallett, and Bobby Byrnes from the Varsity squad; Paul Garrity, Rick Woodruff, and Don Blake from the Junior Varsity; and Herman Stromberg, Ray, Eder, Townsend Ellis, and Howie Gleason from the spring practice squad...
Pentagon pundits offered explanations: 1) his predecessor, Major General Russell P. ("Scrappy") Hartle (new assignment unannounced), was due for relief from 18 months of duty overseas; 2) Townsend Gerow holds the confidence of Chief of Staff George Marshall, whom he followed by ten years at Virginia Military Institute.* Best guess was that Gerow's reputation earned him a job that may take him to the bridgeheads on Western Europe. He is one of the Army's top infantry tacticians...
...schoolteacher, fundamentalist radiorator, moonfaced "Bible Bill" Aberhart preached a new millennium, was elected to produce it in depression-ridden 1935. His version of Clifford Hugh Douglas' theories tried to combine funny money, state control of credit, a feeble application of the Keynes public-works principles, handouts à la Townsend. The attempt was foredoomed by Alberta's economic dependence, the hostility of courts and capital. One of the few non-Marxian reformers taken at his word and told by the voters to pitch in, he did not look like a demagogue to small Canadian investors who knew his administration...