Captains of the crew are traditionally strong in heart and head as well as arm. No exception was Barklie McKee Henry, Harvard's 1924 crew captain. "Buz" Henry, who was also Ibis of the Lampoon, and librettist of the Hasty Pudding show, graduated cum laude, published a novel, married rich Harry Payne Whitney's daughter Barbara.
Back from a year at Oxford, Barklie Henry worked for the Boston American, Atlantic Monthly, became managing editor of Youth's Companion. Suddenly in 1928 he dropped out of sight. Close friends knew he had a job with New York's Guaranty Trust Co., but the job was...
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