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...brisk, enthusiastic French priest stepped jauntily ashore in Shanghai to begin his career as a Vincentian missionary. For the next 46 years, Father Adolph Buch kept himself busy teaching, preaching, training young Chinese priests, organizing medical dispensaries, and helping to care for the sick, the poor and the helpless. In the midst of his tasks, he found time to become a collector of butterflies as well...
Museums as far off as Chicago welcomed the specimens sent them by Adolph Buch, and some even gave his name to hitherto uncatalogued varieties. But, after spending half his life in China, Father Buch saw the institutions he helped found taken over one by one by China's Communists. At last his own superiors realized that there was no point in his staying on longer. Father Buch packed up 150 of his choicest butterflies and started the long journey home...
Last week, a wizened, bent and benign old man of 87, Adolph Buch came shuffling up the dirt road to Lowu Bridge that leads out of Red China into free Hong Kong. He no longer had even his butterflies. Communist customs officials had taken them away. "Imagine it," said the old priest. "They accused me of wanting to send my collection to the States, to be sent back laden with germs...
...Adolph Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Athletics, announced yesterday that a permanent alignment of Houses had been made. This grouping, different from last year, will send all-stars from Eliot, Dunster, Winthrop and Adams against all-stars from Lowell, Leverett, Kirkland and Dudley in annual football, basketball, and hockey games...
...which will not be in quantity production for two years, has been a longer time abuilding. Convair started work on it in 1945 when one of its engineers, Adolph Berstein, read about delta-wing experiments in wartime Germany. Not till three years later did Convair turn out the XF-92, the first known delta-wing fighter to fly. Convair turned it over to the Air Force, which has been testing it since then, while Convair has improved the design...