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...award was the result of a Hearst stunt. A young New York girl was dying of a fierce disease and had "seven hours to live" (this uncanny precision - seven hours, not six or eight - was quintessential Hearst journalism). Penicillin would save her, but the Army held the existing supply of the wonder drug. Paul phoned the Surgeon General, talked him into releasing the antibiotic, and had it rushed to the hospital in a Journal-American radio car. He beat death by three hours, and the Times by a good deal more...
Cuccia was not bragging; simply stating a fact. In addition to holding eight national prep records, being named to several all-star teams and receiving a state MVP award, the 5' 9" freshman quarterback also has a closet's worth of clippings...
Finally, this week's award for the best lecture title goes to Oxford's James D. Murray who will speak next Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Pierce 209 on "Threshold Cell-Cell Interaction and Spatial Structuring in Practical Reaction-Diffusion Systems or How the Leopard Got its Spots...
Before you turn the page, I would like to present this issue's "Cheer of the Week" award to a cheer which I heard Saturday at the Coulumbia game. It goes to the creator of a remarkably melodic ditty, rich in imagery, and destined to enter the realm of Harvardiana--"Harass them, harass them, make them relinquish the spheroid...
DIED. George Bliss, 60, award-winning investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune; by his own hand, after apparently shooting and killing his wife; in Oak Lawn, Ill. A series on a scandal-infested municipal sanitary district won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1962; subsequently, he headed inquiries into election fraud and federal housing programs that garnered his paper two more Pulitzers. According to Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, Bliss was a "perfectionist who agonized over details and in effect became a victim of his own intense devotion to journalism...