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...Compensation. In Miami, Asa Sebits arrived from Detroit with a new ambulance for delivery to the Red Cross, explained how he had got gasoline en route without a ration book. Two celebrating soldiers he had picked up had passed out, and Sebits told a gas station operator they were dead. The operator took a look, believed him, filled the tank. Donor of the ambulance: the W.C.T.U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...Summer School which reached its peak this July with a total of 4167 students, male and female, is a far cry from those botany classes, conducted by the new-famous Professor Asa Gray. With 964 women to entertain the 2,000 undergraduates, this summer session is a refreshing non-Harvardlike phenomenon...

Author: By Judith Handler and Armand SCHWAB Jr., S | Title: 1871 Botany Class, Bustled Girls, School Marms Paved Way for Acceleration-Molded Co-ed Summer School | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Tenacious, affable, Brigadier General Asa North Duncan, 50, is chief of staff. In 1918 he was less chunky but equally tenacious as a two-gun photographer-observer. Citadon: "Duncan fought until both his guns were hopelessly jammed by shots which pierced both magazine drums. He was twice knocked down by the impact of shots against his gun mount." Not until after World War I did he win his pilot's wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: To the Front | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

William J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, has been elected president of the Pentagonal Hockey League, it was announced yesterday by Asa S. Bushnell, director of the central office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bingham Gets New Post | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Yale will again join in the annual championship matches of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association to take place on March 20 and 21 in New York, it was announced yesterday by Asa S. Bushnell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Fencers Return To Championship Meet | 3/10/1942 | See Source »

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