Word: alden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beauty, and asking for a third term. His key line: "If you have a problem, write to me." Reporters noticed, however, that Langer did not kiss babies. An admirer explained: "Old Bill, he's smart. He knows this is the antiseptic age." Traveling with him was Reporter Alden MacLachlan of Bismarck, representing ten A.P. newspapers. Langer always introduced him as "the reporter from the Fargo Forum [an anti-Langer paper] who follows me around to write lies about me . . . Stand up and let them see what your kind of man looks like." Back in the car, Langer would chuckle...
...separatists from the Church of England, fleeing King James I's persecution. Even those refugees emerge as an earthy, red-blooded lot. The rest of the voyagers are as rowdy a band of adventurers and vagabonds as ever set sail. Aboard is a young cooper named John Alden (played by Van Johnson), who keeps the passengers' whisky and beer barrels in repair. Captain Myles Standish is below-decks most of the time; Researcher Deutsch decided that Standish was already married and probably not courting Priscilla Mullins...
First prize, a portable Smith-Corona typewriter went to Cavin P. Leeman '52. Roger A. Pomeroy '55 won the second prize, a $20 Shaeffer pen set. Third prize, a free typewriter overhaul, was awarded to three people, John deBruynkops, III '53, Alden C. Davis '52, and Linette Peter '54. Fourth prize winner Richard C. Spelman '53 really hit the jackpot, winning 100 pounds of ice to be shipped anywhere in the United States...
...Fellowship grant may be considered an "advance-in-aid," Alden said yesterday, "for which the student would assume no legal obligation to repay, but rather a moral commitment...
Stipends for the David Fellowships will vary according to the recipients' need. Vernon R. Alden, Director of Financial Aid, estimates that $2,000 per academic year is sufficient for single men, although married students may require...