'25 Brief Biography

CHARLEY MOORE was born in Beverly, Mass., on March 5, 1903, a stone's throw from Frank Wallace's natal bailiwick. Neither started throwing stones, however, until they first met, 18 years later in Hanover, N. H. In the years between, Moore struggled through various schools in half-a-dozen states and continued the roving and struggling habits thus acquired during that impressionable adolescent period with making-a-living assignments in Orleans, Mass., (shovelling sand into a cement mixer); Boston, Mass., (newspaper); Washington, D. C„ (magazine); New York, N. Y., (magazine); Washington, D. C., (newspaper); Wellesley, Mass., (magazine); Boston, Mass., (newspaper).

Results of all the above are best summed up by the comment of Ralph Thompson, who turned Moore over the day after last year's Dartmouth-Harvard game, carefully inspected the still warm body and came up with, "Just as I thought—no moss." Most startling and important events in Moore's life since that grim day in 1903—in order of their importance—have been: (a) the understandingly so, yet somewhat reluctant, "yes" of Adeline Reeves Nichols of Cambridge, Mass., in the spring of 1928; (b) their subsequent marriage in the fall of that year; (c) the births of their four children—Charles, Jonathan, Deborah and Lydia; (d) the receipt by Moore, shortly after publication in Life magazine of a fullpage portrait of Gargantua, of many congratulatory telegrams, letters and postal cards; and (e) the meeting with the classmate at 1925's Fifteenth Reunion who stuck out his hand with practically no hesitation whatever and said, "Hello, Charley!"