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...other campus, the new degree might have sounded fantastic. But not at the University of Southern California. As everyone knew, the man financing the degree and the four-year course behind it was none other than old Captain Allan ("Keep Moving") Hancock himself, the chairman of the board of trustees. Coming from him, a bachelor of science in the liberal arts with a major in television sounded perfectly natural...
Bits & Bones. The captain began being an educator shortly after his father died, leaving behind some 3,000 rich Los Angeles acres, but scarcely a penny in the bank. To help support his mother, young Allan started digging up the tar pits on his land, selling the tar as fuel and roof-patching. Gradually the pits began to yield something else-the well preserved bones of ice-age animals, trapped in the tar many centuries...
...Died. Allan M. Hirsh, 73, Virginia-born sewer-pipe manufacturer with an old claim to fame: as a college sophomore (Yale '01), he wrote Boola-Boola, the football song; in Manhattan...
...desperately hard-up writer named Edgar Allan Poe submitted a sensational story to the New York Sun. A coal-gas balloon "employing the principle of the Archimedean screw," he said, had crossed the Atlantic Ocean in three days. The gullible Sun splashed this fantasy over its front page; two days later it ruefully apologized...
Died. Algernon Blackwood, 82, leading British practitioner of horror fiction (Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural -TIME, Feb. 12; The Doll and One Other) in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe; after long illness; in London...