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...Wister Prize, of $50, to the student who passes his examinations with the highest combined average in mathematics and music, to Egbert W. Fischer '36, of Butte, Montana...
...wishes into a microphone which gave him a nationwide audience. Without topcoat or hat but wearing white gloves was fair-haired Leopold Stokowski, exulting not only over the tour to come but because there is a prospect of a European trip next season. Cameras clicked rapidly while Frances A. Wister of the Orchestra Board presented Conductor Stokowski with a fox-terrier pup named Nipper. The New York Philharmonic players sent money to buy each of the travelers a beer. Led by Trumpeter Saul Caston, the Orchestra's brasses blew out Auld Lang Syne, played Anchors Aweigh for "all aboard...
...thugs, killed one of them. Later in Washington he was "assistant" for four years to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain of the U. S. Senate. In 1905 he turned up in Philadelphia to fight the Vare machine, became Secretary of an independent Republican group backed by Owen Wister, Owen J. Roberts, and William C. Bullitt, father of the present U. S. Ambassador to Russia. In 1912 with Princeton's late Bill Roper he organized the Woodrow Wilson Independent League. After the War, during which he investigated munition plants for the Department of Justice, he tried several unsuccessful business ventures...
SLIM-William Wister Haines-Little, Brown...
...Virginian (1902) Owen Wister...