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...first President of the paper was Mr. Francis Child Faulkner '74. The other editors on the original board, all members of the class of 1874, were Messrs. Eugene Nelson Aston, Henry Alden Clark, Samuel Belcher Clarke, Thomas Corlies, George Erwin Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin Mackintosh, Houry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson. Of these first editors, only four Messrs. Clark, Clarke, Merwin, and Sampson are alive today...
Died. Dr. Francis William Aston, 68, British chemist who won a 1922 Nobel Prize for inventing the mass spectrograph, through which heavy water and uranium 235 (atomic bomb ingredient) were discovered; in Cambridge, England. He once warned against atomic tinkering: "All hydrogen on earth might be transformed at once, and this most successful experiment published to the universe [as] a new star of extraordinary brilliance...
...this was Socialism, there were those in Britain who remained unreconstructed. On being re-elected Master of the famed Whaddon Chase Hunt last fortnight, Captain H. T. Morton of Aston Abbots, Bucks, proclaimed this characteristic, amiable aim for the Old School Tie: "We are told that after the war life will be quite different. Hunting, shooting, fishing, racing, darts and football must be protected because they are in the blood of all Englishmen. We must see that these are carried on so that after the war we will be able to enjoy these wonderful sports that make England worthy...
German bombings may leave the good people of Birmingham, England comparatively unmoved, but if there is one thing that brings out a cold rage ... it is having their first-class football team, Aston Villa, claimed by Liverpool, as in your issue...
...Deluged by dozens of protests in addition to Reader Whetham's, TIME hastily restores Aston Villa (soccer) to Birmingham where it belongs...