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Harvard's oldest living graduate, Theodore Parker Adams '67, celebrated his 102nd birthday yesterday in Plymouth with a quiet family dinner at his home. With him was his wife, a mere youngster of 75 years...
Bright fire gushed from the 18-ft. wound in the structure's side, reached for the topmost observation tower on the 102nd floor. Gasoline fumes popped in flash explosions four and five floors below. Thick, acrid smoke billowed above & below, soon filled the upper floors...
...second largest German town to fall in the west. * By then, vehicular bridges spanned the Roer, and supplies, guns, armor and troop reinforcements were flowing steadily across. The Ninth captured Steinstrass, 18 miles from Cologne, which had been a refitting center for German armor. The 84th and 102nd Infantry Divisions captured some enemy 88s with ammunition intact. In a night attack on Merzenich, the First Army took prisoners in their sleeping clothes...
...biggest and noisiest sedition trial in U.S. history ended last week. On the evening of the 102nd day, U.S. District Judge Edward Clayton Eicher, 65, went home, died of a heart attack. No one in Washington doubted that a ludicrously undignified trial had hastened the death of a scrupulously dignified judge. An ardent New Dealer, a onetime Iowa Congressman (1933-38) and SEChairman (1941-42), Judge Eicher had done his amiable best with a clumsy Justice Department mass indictment which accused 30 defendants of conspiring to Nazify the U.S. For more than seven .months he had banged a tireless, ineffectual...
...Douglas MacArthur said last week that his troops had wiped out the original 35,000 defenders. But the Japs by steady reinforcement had replaced them, then had landed 10,000 more. Jap units identified included the 16th Division (now virtually annihilated, said MacArthur), the 1st, 30th, 102nd and the crack 26th Division which had last been heard of as a part of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria...