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...Timothy Anderson of Eliot House and Bemus Point, N.Y. was elected Second Class Marshal, Frank B. White of Eliot House and Cohasset, Mass. was chosen Third Class Marshal, and Geoffrey H. Ball of Dunster House and Bell, Calif. was elected Member-at-Large of the Committee...

Author: By John E. Grady, | Title: Alexander, Anderson, White Elected Marshals of 1955 Class Committee | 3/10/1955 | See Source »

Varsity football letterman yesterday elected J. Timothy Anderson '55 of Bemus Point, N. Y., and Eliot House captain of the 1954 team. The successor to Richard J. Clasby '54 is a two-year letterman at guard and was called by Coach Lioyd Jordan "one of the best lineman I've ever coached." "He'll make a grand leader," the Crimson Coach added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anderson Chosen Football Captain; Band Selects Novick for Manager | 11/24/1953 | See Source »

Died. Bainbridge Colby, 80, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State from 1920 to 1921; after a ten-day illness; in Bemus Point, N.Y. A longtime foe of Communism, Colby wrote the note refusing U.S. recognition of the U.S.S.R. in 1920 ("It is not possible for the . . . United States to recognize the present rulers of Russia as a government with which the relations common to friendly governments can be maintained."), stood by his opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...Richelieu's owner, a Colonel Bemus, used to trot around to Sprague Warner's to sample before buying. Anything the sniffish colonel approved was dubbed "Richelieu" as a mark of distinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commuters' Merger | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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