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there to snatch the American
League pennant.
Foxx figured In the 1881 triumph
OF the Athletics over the Mats, how
ever, as Mickey Cochrane, AL Sim
mons and Foxx whacked successive
singles In the eleventh inning to win,
5-3. The Athletics, with Jimmy
Dykes, Rube Walberg, Lefty Grove,
Mule Haas, Max Bishop. Joe Boley
and Btng Miller, in addition to the
iuustrious Cochrane, Simmons and
Foxx, captured the pennant that
year.
Presidents as Fans.
The least enthusiastic presidential
fan probably was Herbert Hoover,
who left that latter engagement at
the beginning of the 10th inning. In
1880, IN a game won by Boston, 4-3,
ne exhibited little faith in the Mats.
He left that one at the end of the
eighth inning. In 1882 Washing
ton won a 10, 10-inning battle from
Boston, but Mr.. Hoover deserted
Grlmth Stadium at the end of the
seventh inning. In 1929 he remained
the route to view Washington humil-
lated, 1874, by the AS.
President Wilson was the most
enthusiastic Chief Executive, &C
cording to Secretary Edward B.
Eynon, jr., of the Mats. Wilson
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so Uncle Sam Became an Artists Patron

painting at night. One day he
showed his pictures to his friend,
Maurice Sterne, the artist. They
were good. So when Mr.. Sterne
left for Northern Italy he was fol-
lowed by cable from Bruce asking,
"Can I Gomez" Sterne answered,
"Got 48 rooms. Come on"
Bruce chucked finance, packed his
palette and his beautiful wife and
went to Italy, where he worked
businessman's hours-dawn to dusk.
At the end Of the first year he
burned everything he'd done. Two
years later he had q show in New
York and sold every picture. A
year later the same thing happened.
He's got as much as $500 for .
picture. He looks embarrassed
about that.
Then '33 came along. Bruce had
become annoyed at the way the
little, unknown painters down the
line never had q chance at the big
commissions-painting for public
buildings.
Bruce said this Is q democracy.
Murals should be chosen through
open competitions. What's more,
they could be done cheaper.
Now when public building goes
up Bruce opens competition for
the mural. Any one can enter. The
entries are sent in with the name
Of the artist sealed. After . win.
ming mural is chosen by q. commit
tee, the sealed envelope Is opened.
Then the artist Is paid out Of the
building fund.
Bruce has kept the cost Of murals
down to less than l per cent Of the
cost Of the buildings. They used to
run from 2 to S per cent, he says.
Some $4,000 paintings have been
submitted In such competitions.
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this season. Contrasting types, with
Williams, a lean, laughing kidder of
customers in the bleachers and Kel-
Ter, a stocky, serious, reserved young
ster, they have captivated the i'm
agination of the baseball armament.
Their second year in the big show
should be interesting.
Keller batted an impressive 1874
in the regular season last year and
then sparked the Yankees to four
straight victories over the Cincin-
natl Reds in the World Series, spray
ing q steady succession Of hits to all
sectors of the outfield and over dis
tant barriers. This year he is being
touted by many veteran baseball OBJ
servers as leading candidate to
win the American League batting
crown.
williams, who owns all the ex-
uberance of a 13-year-old, conceive
ably can be the games greatest in
dividual drawing card since Babe
Ruth If he fulfills all the promise
he has demonstrated to date. AL
ready he has surpassed some Of big
Babes long distance hitting feats
and they've moved the right fleld
bleachers at Fenway Park, his home
stadium, in some 20 feet to present
him more fetching target for home
runs.
This year Washington may un-
rayel . youngster destined for star
dom. That, at least, y the MATS
cherished ambition and It isn't IN
the realm of improbability. Who
would have known, for instance. that
the youth playing third base for the
Boston Red Sox In the 1894 open
er here, one Bucky Walters, would
win ~ games ~ . pitcher for Gin
ciuuad last season?
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By Burton Havkins.

Clark Grifnth of Washington plucked
him from the minors and equipped
him with q crack catcher in Rick
Ferrell. Leonard, after a semi-suc-
cessful year in 1898, last year COM
piled 20 victories against eight de-
feats for a sixth place team, prob
ably the most creditable pitching
record Of the season.
Take, on the other hand, Man.
ager Joe Cronin of Boston, who
plays a suitable style of shortstop
for the Red Sox. He was tried and
found wanting on three occasions
by the Pittsburgh Pirates. WASH
ington picked him up after he had
been sent to Kansas City in 1928,
a 245 hitter when he came to the
Mats in midseason and a .243 hit
ter in 63 games with the Mats the
remainder of that year.
But Cronin had it. He had it to
such an extent that Owner Tom
Yawkey of the Red Sox parted with
$3.50, 900 of Uncle Sans currency
to purchase him in 1894, marking
the highest price ever paid for a
ball player. Cronin was signed to
manage the Red Sox for five years
and when that contract expired
Yawkey signed him for another five
years at a reported $4,000 per
year. It's true story that's stranger
than fiction.
Patience isn't standard equip
ment with many managers. Ex-
ercise of some of it might have
altered Leonard's future in those
days when he was Dodger. Some
of the more highly regarded pilots.
such as Joe Mccarthy of the YAM
KEGS and Bucky Harris of the Mats,
have learned tolerance.
Ken Chase, Washington south
paw, lost 10 games last year. Ver-
non Kennedy, who dropped 20 de-
cisions, was the only pitcher in
either league to surpass him in that
dubious distinction, yet Chase was
presented a bonus at the end of
the season.
Why? Maybe because there were
seven 1-run losses sprinkled in that
unlovely record, but more likely it
was because Harris and Griffith
felt bolstering his confidence at
that point would save a pitcher.
They chose to emphasize his hard
luck rather than an extremely dis
couraging record and gave him a
shot of confidence many baseball
men feel is the only missing link
toward becoming a slab sensation.
Baseball isn't all tobacco juice,
sharpened spikes and smoldering
feuds. Occasionally a touch OF
tenderness creeps to the surface,
blanketing the dime tips and ap-
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Edward (Ned) Bright Bruce had
four careers behind him when he
turned dollar-a-year man for the
Government. He had been lawyer,
financier, publisher and painter.
Then "33 came along. The public
works program was suffering a tur-
bulent birth. Mr.. Bruce moved to
Washington and talked, talked.
Artists were people. They had to
eat. After al, we did spend money
for pictures. Why should artists dig
bitches when they could paint and
the Nation could get Its pictures at
. very low cost, indeed? What's
more, American artists would paint
American scenes for Americans.
There was some grumbling-there
still is-but the President gave Bruce
q chance to prove his argument as
director Of q brand-new section Of
painting and sculpture in the Treas
ury Department. 81
Now there are SIS small towns with
new post oflces, where> glowing
murals decorate the lobbies and tell
stories and depict scenes familiar to
the townsfolk. Thousands Of people
In, other towns are writing Bruce
begging such pictures for their post
Offices.
Bruce Is . big unpredictable, witty,
hfe-loving, impatient man who looks
Ike genial. ound-shouldered bear
ut his desk. His ONCE doors are al
ways open. He'll listen to the life
story Of the most rundown artist.
BY turns, he's slangy, poetic, as
logical q = cash register. He can
swing from Chinese philosophers to
Philippine politics. Iies highly. re-
spectsd In . town that's too hard
headed to give art much attention.
Bruce Is . teptA-generation New
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rockies to team with established
stars. The Red Sox will have an
expensive experiment in the out
field In bespectacled Dominic DiMag-
gio, brother of the more famed Joe
of the Yankees and Vince of the
Cincinnati Reds.
Dominic swatted a neat 1861 with
San Francisco of the fast Pacific
Coast League last year. If Amer
lean League pitchers shave so per-
centage points off that figure Dom
still figures to be valuable to the
Red Sox providing, of course, his
fielding remains acceptable. He rep
resents an investment of 100000.
The Red Sox, though, aren't wor-
rying too much about their batting
department. They are calculated
to create trouble there, but it's their
pitching and catching that's creas-
ing the brow of Manager Cronin.
His fond hope is that Rookie Pitch
ers Herb Hash and Bill Butland
display some semblance of the form
that made them flashy performers
with Minneapolis last year, for If
Boston gets pitching it may check
the Yankees bid for. a fifth straight
pennant.
Last year Boston came up with
q prize package in angular Ted
Williams, a colorful outfelder who
proceeded to hit 327 and lead the
league IN runs batted in. The Yam
KEGS produced an equally astound-
ing parsonage in beetle-browed
Charley Keller, former University
Of Maryland outfielder, while De-
troit unveiled sturdy specimen in
Outfielder Barney McCosky,
Material for Gabfests.
williams and Keller should pro-
vida An61ASa material fns. natf..<s
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frequently saw the Mats in action
during the season and continued
witnessing games after he left the
White House. On those occasions
his sleek car was parked down the
right field line and Washington re-
serves would perch on the tenders,
running boards and bumpers to in
sure him against injury from a foul.
Last year, when Vice President
Garner pinch-hit for President
Roosevelt at rain-delayed opener,
marked the first time baseball hadn't
been honored by the presidential
presence at an opening game since
1912. Due chiefly to the appear
ance of the President and the at
tendant pageantry, a sell-out for
opening games here virtually is as
,sured every year. This year, for
instance, all except 200 grand
stand seats were sold five weeks
ago. Baseball, incidentally, is the
only sport dignified by the presence
of the President of the United
States at its opening.
It was Griffith, who, back in
1912, visited the White House with
an engraved season pass and pre-
vailed upon President William How
ard Taft to come out to Washing
tons new ball yard and toss out
the first ball. Taft agreed, kept the
date and since 1912, with the ex-
ception of last year, no Chief Ex-
ecutive has missed the traditional
opener.
Title Claimed.
On the strength of that presi-
dental appearance baseball claimed
the gaudy title of Americas Ma
tional Pastime." The claim, Of
course, is dubious. Golf, tennis and
football possibly have more par
ticipants and basket ball draw
more spectators over a seasons
span. There are, by the same to-
ken, more basket ball games played
than games Of any other kind. The
Army-Navy football game lures
1902 700 fans at $40 q pasteboard.
Baseball can't match that, but base
balls season extends over the bet
ter part of six months, for 154
league games year. For sustained
interest 1t doubtless is tops.
No small part Of baseballS fasci-
nation lies In ths annual influx Of
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By Sigrid Arne.

Yorker, son of a minister who ran
an East Side mission for poor Ital-
ians. He played varsity tackle on
the Columbia football team, emerged
q lawyer in 1904. After four years
with a rich law concern he hung
out his shingle in Manila.
He heard the Manila Times was
on the block for $500, 900. For ST.
GOO and notes he got the paper and
in two years paid OF his debt. Later
he formed Far East finance COM
pany.
But for some time he'd been
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plications for relief at least tenn
porarily.
Dramatic Moment

pncatl0nS Tor relief at least tenn
porarily.
Dramatic Moment.
One of those drama-drenched mo-
ments materialized on opening day
of 1896, when blustery Buck Newsom,
then Washington pitcher but now
with Detroit via st. Louis, endeared
himself to thousands with a display
of courage which ranks as the all
time high for openers.
The situation was this: Bill Dickey
was on first base and Ben Chapman
trickled bunt down the third-base
line, intending to sacrifice Yankee
Dickey to second. Panther like,
Third Baseman Bluege swooped on
the ball and fired it toward first
base. 1t was a perfect peg, but
Newsom had forgotten to duck.
Semi-delirious from the moment
Bluege's whistling throw struck be-
low his ear with a sickening smack,
Newsom refused to quit. He brushed
aside medical advice, the restraining
arms of teammates, and after three
minutes rest rushed back to the
mound to shut out the Yankees, 10,
in 10 innings on four hits. A single
by Cecil Travis and a double by Carl
Reynolds in the tenth inning gave
Newsom his first winning start in
the major leagues.
Jimmy Foxx, Boston's steady.
sturdy first baseman, has become
somewhat of an institution in OPEN
ers here. His appearance Tuesday
will mark the fourth time In the
past decade Jimmy has witnessed
presidential pitches and his pres
ence has been q disturbing factor
to the Mats.
In 1885, when Foxx was catching
for the Philadelphia Athletics, he
blasted q mighty home run among
the customers in the left field
bleachers, but the Mats won any
way, AZ. In 1888 he played with
the Philadelphia team, which was
minus Manager Connie Mack, who
missed the Athletics opening game
for the first time In his lengthy
managerial career to plead the
cause OF Sunday baseball in Phila-
delphiaI with Gov. Clifford Pinchot
at Harrisburg. The Mats won that
one, too. al, and went on from
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of
urded
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Big An>Star Polo Match
To Be Outstanding Event
Unusual Enthusiasm Is Shown
In Game Here Next Sunday for
Benefit of Bundles for Britain

Summers going crisp the air
brings ze for sports and brilliant Washington
scheduled Sunday
asar
Bundles for Britain.
Back of this announcement is interesting
In wartorn London of
Engishmen them Lady
ganzed the Foxcroft work mobile
Because
Charlotte Nolan head the Foxcro School,
which
work dashed of New pocket
Eight OF Americas star polo players whom
England matches the Foxcro
and who had been entertained in their homes help
Miss holland laid before
the Sponsors Committee of Bundles Britain
play all the world and titles with them England
with Maj John K chief Of cavalry
game Miss Noand Mrs Garrett and others
l.. Gerry, his Elbridge Gerry
Senator Got
Orange
Mr. Stewart gehart Americas 0goal Peter Grace
and Robert Strawbrdge all three the
Michael Phipps
of and Cecil Smith, 10-goa O
world opposing
Ambassador Of Britain the Marques of
the Embassy staff enthusiastic their support
possible Marshall
staff; William Dryden Jacob
member Of the Sponsors Committee.
making
the erection stands along the field which will
10000 spectators for food which the Welfare and
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Mrs. Hull Will Christen
US. S. President Hayes
At Newport News Friday
New Honor Awaits Popular Hostess;
Presidents Official Family Is
Gathering for Winter Season
BY MARGARET HART,
Society Editor.

society Capital enjoys
enthusiasm Corde Hull wife of the of With
all
her husbands of
charming self delighted Hull
her U.
interesting enough
when she
first the ship.
Mrs
To Be Matron of Honor.
Washington Thursday evening
this completed
built the specifications
United
will of honor for her the
Huls will be Miss Edith Wright daughter
Wright the Ambassador
Cuba be the ships maid of Cecil
Gray secretary Mr. Hull likewise will be in the will Mrs
Huls brotherin-laW and W. w.
arrival Friday Hull
will Shipbudng
who will them launching
Former William Gibbs McAdoo who
Luncheon o Given
At Country Club
Following a
honor the cabinet River Country
There will be number Washington making the Newport
News included
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Officials Will Be Guests
At Laurel Track Opening
Persons Prominent in Capital
And Maryland Will Be Present;
Invitations Issued for Luncheon

Highrankng Government officials Washington Maryland
luncheon
Laurel clubhouse Wednesday, the
officially
incorporated Maj G. Syker of Tmonm Mrs Stryker have
Fred Mckinney Howard County
Capital
officially
Prominent WashingtOnans
Will Witness Inaugural
Representative P of
William Julian Mr. Mrs Jouett Shouse
Mrs Rozier Duany,
Christmas Mr. Mrs William
will be those from Washington in the
Maryland Mrs. Herbert OCono,
called historians the birthplace
trfdom, also will be these will be Mr. and Mrs
L. Chaedon
Mr. jr Mr. and
WardeI all Baltimore; Mr.
and Mrs Charles Williams
Mr. p. Wilmington, Del;
anon Robert High Of Bel Air and other
distinguished guests
Announced
Among prominent Secretary
State Breckenridge Long Mrs Jouett Shou Mr.
Allen
William Stanley who have
place just outside LAUREL Mr. j. Kremer Mr. Alexander Hagne
Mr. L. Harrison Walter Bowes Manfuso Mr.
country
York far California notables trfdom
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Chatfeld-
MacMurray
Engagement

An engagement which unites
two prominent families is being
announced today by the former
fiscal secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield-Tay-
lor, whose daughter, Miss Rose
Chatfield- Taylor, will wed Mr..
Frank Goodnow MacMurray. Mr..
MacMurray is the son of the
United States Ambassador to
Turkey and Mrs. John Van Ant
werp MacMurray.
Miss Chatfleld-Taylor was a
lovely and popular debutant of
the past season. She was gradu-
ated from Westover School, Mid
dleburg, Conn, and attended
Bennington College.
Mr.. MacMurray was graduated
from Gilman School in Baltimore
and from Princeton University,
class of 1910. He was a member
of Cap and Gown Club and of
the 15O-pound crew. He now is
attending Harvard medical
school.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
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the Maritime commission.
Mrs. Hull will return to Washing
ton Saturday morning. sailing from
Newport News late Friday afternoon.
Tuesday Mrs Hull will be a guest
at the luncheon given in honor of
the Speaker of the House, Mr.. Sam
Rayburn, by the Women's National
Press Club.
Official Family
Returning From Vacations.
With the arrival of fall, the Presi-
dents official family is slowly but
surely gathering again in the city,
after summer spent at their wide
spread vacation spots. The Secretary
of the Treasury, Mr.. Henry Morgen-
thau. il, went to HOpewell junction,
N, Y, to spend the week end with
Mrs. Morgenthau and their family
at Fishkill Farm, where the latter
have spent the summer. The Sec
retary is returning to his desk early
this week. but the rest of the family
will remain at the farm for some
time.
The Secretary of War and Mrs.
Henry L. Stimson are on Long Island
for the week end. but will return to
their home, Woodley, tomorrow.
The Attorney General and Mrs.
Robert H. jackson are spending the
week end in their Wardman Park
apartment. with no plans for visit
ing or being visited at this time.
The Postmaster General, Mr..
Frank C. Walker, has joined Mrs.
Walker in New York for the week
end. Mrs. Walker was here one day
during the past week, but has not
yet made plans for a permanent
residence in the Capital.
Mr.. Frank Knox, the Secretary of
the Navy, is week-ending in Man.
chester, N. Y, with Mrs. Knox. He
will return to his Office tomorrow,
but Mrs. Knox will not come to
Washington for quite while.
The Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, whose place,
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Autumn Season Is Lagging,
With No Definite Promise
OF Lavish Entertaining
Informal Parties Alone Scheduled
Diplomats Settling for Winter;
Other Notes of the Social Set

Washingons gayest winter, this autumn
usual large and formal
gatherings Although of the debu
with their plans for the entertain
members the official and diplomatic ontngen
will informal gatherings small formal
receptions balls Of the past
Polish Ambassador
tends
Potock is spending the week
witness the opening Of the football
University of Pittsburgh
the person
who Counselor OF the
rank of Minister
mission Mahesa Rosso-Longh re-
joining him Canada They again
time before going
north
Naval the Embassy Count della Tore mas
has lived for time and Is at
for the winter
British Counselor
Moves Embassy
Counselor of British Embassy Mr. r. Stop
Hotel and quarters
Embassy.
Embassy and Mrs Clarke have
3700 for the
The staff Legation which has
Jordan have arrived in Wash
taken apartment in the Valley Vista
Minister and Mrs Close who closed the Legation early In the
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Miss Perkins
AndMr. Piper
Are Married
Official Interest
In Ceremony
In New Jersey

Of interest in official circles here
Is the wedding of Miss Grace Gail
Perkins, daughter of Mrs. Perkins
and the late Representative Ran
dolph Perkins, to Mr.. Richard Clay
Piper, jr.. of Ridgewood, N. J. The
ceremony took place yesterday aft
ernoon at o'clock in Christ Church,
Ridgewood, with the Rev. Alfred J..
Miller and the Rev. Edwin S. Car
son performing the ceremony.
White gladioluses and pastel color
asters and fern decorated the
church, where the bride was given
in marriage by her brother, Mr.
John Randolph Perkins.
The bride wore a long bouffant
dress of gray faille silk. with a
(See PERKINS. Page DID
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Weekend Guests
Are Entertained

Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Gallagher
of San Francisco were the week
end guests of Rear Admiral and
Mrs. John w. Greenslade and the
latter's mother, Mrs. Hugh j.
Gallagher at their Kennedy
Warren apartment. Mr. Gallagher
is the son of Mrs. Hugh J. Gal
lagher and the late Col. Gal
lagher, U. S. A.
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Mrs. NJ. r. Beebe
AWAY on Visit

Mrs. Mathew Ross Beebe, wife
of Mai. Beebe of Arlington, Is
visiting relatives in Indiana,
Illinois and Wisconsin.
Mrs. M. r. Beebe, jr., wife Of
1t. Beebe of Arlington, is SPEND
ing two weeks in Lexington, Va.
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Barger.
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eating for the 25-day meet.
Mr.. Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt,
whose stables will be represented
during the meet; Mr.. William du
Pont, jr, of Wilmington, Mr.. A. C..
Bostwick of Long Island, Mrs. Ethel
Mars of Chicago, Mr.. Howard Bruce,
Mrs. w. w. Keith and Mr.. Harry
A. Parr, 3D., of Baltimore, and host
of other well-known race devotees
will entertain friends in their boxes
On opening day.
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Entertain Visitors

Comdr. and Mrs. c. B. Platt have
as their house guests Mr.. and Mrs.
A. S. Abel of Baltimore. Last night
Mr.. and Mrs. Eustis Florance gave
a dinner In honor of the visitors and
today Comdr. and Mrs. Platt will
give a cocktail party for their guests
Evening star., 1940-09-29

summer and have been at the Cnevy
Chase Club, have set no date to re-
turn to their Massachusetts, abode.
Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins,
assistant chief Of the Foreign Serv-
ice Buildings once Of the Depart
ment of State, is now in Buenos
Aires visiting her mother, Sonora
de Bruyn, and other relatives. Mrs.
Robbins he's recently returned there
from a cruise on her brothers yacht
to Montivedao. Chaco, and other
points about South America.
DR.. and Mrs. James Alexander
(Contin,Ied on Page D-3. Column ~
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Goes to Fort Knox

1t. T. G. Rogers, U. s. A.. and Mrs.
Rogers with their son. T. G. Rogers,
jr., left Fort Myer this week for 1t.
Rogers new station at Fort Knox,
KY.
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Miss Martha JosephS
To Wed n. L. NathansOn.

Mrs. Soly Josephs of Chattanooga.
Tenn announces the engagement of
her daughter. Miss Martha Lillian
JosephS, to Mr.. Nathaniel Louis
Nathanson of Chicago.
Miss Josephs is the daughter Of
Mrs Josephs and the late Mr.. Jo-
sephs She was graduated from
Wellesley College in the class of
1885, and has since lived in New
York and Washington. At present
she is connected with the Advisory
Commission to the Council of Ma
tional Defense.
Mr.. Nathanson is the son of Mrs.
Lillian D. Nathanson and the late
Mr.. Samuel J. Nathanson of New
Haven, Conn. He is a graduate Of
Yale University ana Yale Law
School and received the degree Of
doctor of juristic science from Har-
ward University in 1923. He worked
in Washington for two years. one
as secretary to Justice Louis D.
Brandeis. He is a member of the