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Other officers elected were: Margaret Muller of Smith, to the vice-presidency, and Ruth Livingston, of Bennington College, as secretary-treasurer. Miss Bruchholz and Beverly Greenberg of Mount Holyoke were elected to the Executive Board while on position was left open to be filed by a Connecticut representative...
Drawing its representatives from colleges formerly in the U S Student Assembly, and from recently-formed SDA chapters, schools with members present at this meeting, designed to put the SDA on a national integrated basis, included Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Bennington, Yale and Princeton. The ten HLU members were the only representatives from Harvard...
Flagman Edward J. Mulvihill tried the brake; when it failed he ordered the passengers from their berths, told them to lie flat on the floor. For 3½ miles and about five minutes, they lived a common bad dream. The car teetered at 50 m.p.h. around Bennington Curve (where the Pennsylvania's Red Arrow had killed 24 in a wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead...
This week three other Pennsylvania trains were wrecked on a single night. At Freeport, Pa., Engineer W. T. Nixon was killed when his locomotive rammed a standing freight. At Belvidere, N.J., three were injured in a similar crash. And just east of the now infamous Bennington curve, three cars of an eastbound freight jumped the tracks...
...double-engined streamliner, Red Arrow, bellowed out of a black Allegheny Mountain tunnel and began a long downgrade run for the famed Bennington Curve.* She was an hour late. Conductor J. A. McCormick felt the speedup as he walked through the lounge car toward a Pullman up ahead. Suddenly he stopped: "I sensed something-I don't know what-telling me to wait...