Word: babcock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budd, famed builder of automobile bodies 'and streamlined trains; Ernest T. Trigg, a conservative paint manufacturer; and Rev. John Archibald MacCallum, a liberal Presbyterian pastor and oldtime friend of Founder Conwell. Soon ex-Trustee MacCallum began to make charges. For no obvious reason, eminent Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business, banking and politics. Like other ventures in which Businessman-Politico Greenfield is involved, the Temple din took on the vague outlines...
After having been missing for three months, Alfred R. Babcock, a Senior who disappeared from his room in Lowell House on January 18, has been located in Martinique, a French Island possession in the West Indies, where he has enlisted in the French army...
...Alston Blackwell '40, Babcock's roommate, said yesterday that the missing student had sent a telegram to an aunt in Summit, N. J., with the brief message, "Am in army until end of war." The message was sent from Fort de France, Martinique. Presumably Babcock had made his way there in order to enlist under French colors and obtain passage to France...
...known whether Babcock took out a passport prior to his mysterious departure from Harvard. Before leaving he handed in his resignation to University officials...
...several weeks previous to his taking leave of Harvard, Babcock had made no secret of his intense sympathy for the French cause...