Word: alumnus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word of Farewell. Soon from the shelter strutted eight spic-&-span staff officers, one a Heidelberg alumnus with dueling scars on his face; 400 German soldiers and 30-odd U.S. captives followed them. Colonel Wilck asked for and received permission to address a Word of farewell to his men. Said he: "Dear German soldiers, I am speaking to you at a painful moment. ... I saw that further fighting was useless. ... At this time I have to remind you that you are still German soldiers. Please behave as such. I also wish you the best of health in your future travels...
Thus, in his Morituri Salutamus, Alumnus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (class of 1825) exhorted the seniors of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.) on the 50th anniversary of his own graduation. Last week Bowdoin, still one of the nation's top-ranking small colleges, celebrated its 150th anniversary. For 2,160 of its bold alumni there are stars in Bowdoin's World War II service flag; for 31 of the boldest the stars are gold...
Died. Georges Barrère, 67, famed flutist (TIME, Jan. 3); after a stroke; in Kingston, N.Y. Alumnus of the orchestra of Paris' Folies Bergères, Flutist Barrère spent nearly 40 years in the U.S., playing in Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, touring with the Barrere Little Symphony, and teaching a whole generation of younger U.S. flutists. He affected an imperial beard, fawn-colored trousers, a Prince Albert and an assortment of exotic flutes made of silver, gold and platinum, valued as high as $3,000 apiece...
...Indianian needed to be told that George Ade was one of the Hoosier greats: Riley, Booth Tarkington, the McCutcheons (Cartoonist John T. and Graustark's George Barr), Meredith Nicholson, Lew ("Ben Hur") Wallace. Indianians knew him too as Purdue's No. 1 alumnus, and "Sigma Chi's Modern Patron Saint." He had lived there 30 years as a Hoosier squire, though he wintered in Florida-he said the Midwest had no climate, "just an assortment of unexpected weather...
...national dealer's organization; 3) the services of Gunnison Corp.'s kinetic, genial founder-president, Foster Gunnison, 47. A onetime illuminating engineer who lighted Manhattan's Rockefeller Center and Empire State building, Gunnison got into prefabricated housing with the financial backing of a fellow alumnus of St. Lawrence University, Owen D. Young...