Word: alumnus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Marion (See Here, Private) Hargrove, whose best-selling book made him perhaps the richest alumnus of Yank, signed up for a lecture tour, plans to write another book. Cartoonist George Baker's crude, snafued Sad Sack, who had been syndicated to 60 civilian newspapers, was about to become a civilian himself. Some of the Yanks and their neighbors on the daily Stars & Stripes were getting together on a new magazine, to be named Salute-a word presumably unpleasing to a G.I. ear. Among the Saluters: Cartoonist Bill ("Up Front") Mauldin, New Yorker Staffman Walter Bernstein, Playwright Irwin Shaw...
Woodrow Wilson was finally accepted as a great man by his old university, not one of whose many empty niches held a memorial to Princeton's most famed alumnus and president. President Harold W. Dodds, accepting a Jo Davidson bust, paid a long-delayed tribute which it is now safe to pay, even in Princeton: "Woodrow Wilson's contribution to Princeton," he said, "has been surpassed by no one in the 200 years of her history...
...Orleans about five days a month- when the coffee boats come in. Trombonist Jim Robinson, 53, a crack tailgate man (he calls it "cellar-playing") worked in a New Orleans shipyard during the war. His last job: picking up nuts & bolts. Drummer Warren ("Baby") Dodds, a New Orleans alumnus, played drums for 20 years in Chicago, helped teach such top drummers as Gene Krupa, George Wettling, Ray Bauduc, Dave Tough, and quit steady work because it gave him high blood pressure...
...continuous entertainment policy is upheld by an alternate group under the baton of Sherman Freeman, also a tenor-man and Newton alumnus. Upon all too rare occasions a gal named Shirley Mhore sits in on vocals and makes you forget all about people named Lena Horne or Billie Holliday. The grapevine has it that in a few weeks Shirley will go on the payroll. That would really be a break for jazz in Boston...
Thanks to TIME for an unbiased account of the position of Dartmouth's President Hopkins re proportionate selection for college admissions. Though TIME did not directly damn the jingoism whose misrepresentations produced the controversy, TIME'S summary could lead any college man - student, alumnus, or administrator-only into agreement with President Hopkins and the principles of Dartmouth's system...