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...twelfth president of Amherst, among whose graduates were Classmates Dwight Morrow and Calvin Coolidge, Dr. Cole will succeed President Stanley King, 62 (a fraternity brother in Delta Kappa Epsilon), who is retiring July 1, soon after Amherst's 125th birthday party. As an old grad returning home, Charles Cole well knows the history of Amherst's elm-grown, hilltop campus, which had its start when a group of ardent Puritans from Williams College struck out for themselves, determined to "educate indigent young men of hopeful piety...
...while, if you listen patiently, you can dissect from the wild conglomeration of over-arrangements an interesting tenor chorus or a refreshing break by a trumpet or trombone. In fact most of the solos are really worthwhile in comparison to the greater portion of the music heard north of 125th St. So if you're tired of Frank- the Radcliffe-conception-of-virility-Sinatra and your soul cries our for some musical satisfaction, fall in at the Savoy any Sunday afternoon. If you don't like the band, bring your own horn, sit in, and help bring jazz to Boston...
...Classmate of Mine." Cadet Omar Bradley graduated No. 44 in the class of 164 men; Eisenhower, who roomed across the hall, was 61. Serious, shy Omar had only 19 demerits for his course, stood sixth in conduct; brilliant, gregarious Ike had 100, stood 125th...
Hudson River Spies For some months German aliens and nationals had been quietly moving into O'Brien's Camp, a resort on .the Hudson just above New York's 125th Street Ferry. Last week the FBI did some infiltration of its own. Trapped were an undisclosed number of Germans. Seized by the FBI: 30 collapsible rubber boats of the type used by the German Army, maps of inland waterways, radios, cameras, field glasses, guns, 450 rounds of ammunition. The spy-suspects were whisked to an undisclosed jail...
Second caller was the G.O.P.'s big bear, Wendell Willkie. Visitor Willkie, who had demanded a single director for the war effort 87 times in the 1940 campaign and 37 times since, told the President he was going to make his 125th such demand in a speech that night, to the U.S. Conference of Mayors...