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...Chicago's Dr. Kenneth B. Babcock warned about the necessity of keeping accurate hospital records, cited the case of a 23-year-old woman who was sterilized at her own request. Only reason given in the records: "Moving to Wyoming...
Alfred R. Babcock '40 always wondered whether magazines rejected his poetry because it was inferior, or because he was not a "name" author. So, under his own name, he sent a selection by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel prize-winning Hindu poet, to Poetry Magazine. And another rejection slip joined his mounting pile...
...swallow does not make a summer," said Babcock, "but I pass it on to other young hopefuls for what it is worth. Certainly there is an indication that selection is made on some other basis than pure merit. But I hold no grudge against Poetry. I just selected a poem I thought was good and sent it to a well-known magazine that I thought worthy of testing. This is my last attempt at hoax...
...Camel five years ago, when the Zachary Smith Reynolds Foundation began pouring some of its Camel millions into education (TIME, April 22, 1946). The foundation offered the college the income from a $12,000,000 trust fund if it would move to industrial Winston-Salem. Then Charles Babcock, a Reynolds inlaw, offered a 350-acre site. Wake Forest took one look at its own puny campus (25 acres), decided to accept, and set out to raise the money on its own to build a whole new college from scratch...
Those who gave blood were James Cegan, Superintendent of Adams House, George Leighton, Superintendent of Holmes Hall, Robert McCarthy, patrolman of the University police force, Charles McDonald, a buildings and grounds worker, Gerald O'Sullivan, a maintenance man, and James Babcock, a boss carpenter in the employ of the University, who gave his 31st donation of blood. Two other University workers also contributed...