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From frugal beginnings in 1855 as a state-chartered farmers' college, Pennsylvania State University has grown into the 6th largest (15,400 students) of the nation's 69 land-grant* colleges-with research achievements to match, e.g., in diesel engineering, low temperature studies, corn hybridization. Last week, with scarcely a backward look or a sigh of nostalgia, Penn State briskly marked its 100th year of growth with a day-long celebration...
Sophomore and number one man Ben Hockscher scored a 3-0 victory over the Green's Andy Hamilton. Other winners by 3-0 scores were Captain Bill Wister, number 3, Cal Place, number 5, Bats Wheeler, 6th man, Pete Milton, 7th, and Roger Cortesi, number 9. The 2nd and 4th matches were close with Guy Paschal and Paul Brown winning for the Cirmson after each had dropped two games. Mart Hockscher lost one game in his 8th position victory. Dartmouth managed to win only 5 games...
Paestum Exhumed. The bookish approach scored a triumph at Paestum, 60 miles south of Naples, where Greek empire-builders established a colony in the early 6th century B.C. The city's long history and its conquest by Lucanians and Romans were well known from classical literature, and its walls and colonnades have impressed tourists for centuries, but not until 1951 was there a serious attempt to find what lay beneath the surface. Then Professor P. Claudio Sestieri and a gang of laborers set to work (TIME, Sept. 6). From tombs came vivid paintings on stone of household scenes...
Cliff Gates, an athletic Tennessean with cool blue eyes, was taking his bar exam in 1917 when favorable word came on his application for a Marine Corps commission; he walked out of the exam hall and never went back. In France his company of the 6th Marines suffered more casualties than any other American outfit (131 men killed, 491 wounded). He was wounded seven times. It was, he said dryly, "a life of hardship and hazard," but he wanted no other. He liked the work: fighting...
...Turkish citizen again, Athenagoras has worked hard to make friends with Turkey's leading politicians. He visited the Turkish director of the Hagia Sophia Museum-the first time an Ecumenical Patriarch had set foot within that 6th century shrine of Christendom since it was captured by the Turks in 1453. This was his "wordless answer" to both the extreme Moslems who want it converted to a mosque and the extreme Orthodox who clamor for its reconversion to a church. To newsmen who plagued him for an explanation, he said: "In the time of Byzantium, Hagia Sophia was open...