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Died. Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, 62, Pulitzer Prizewinning (for Strange Holiness in 1936) Maine poet, novelist (Lost Paradise, Red Sky in the Morning), regional historian (Kennebec: Cradle of Americans), lecturer and professor of English at Maine's Bowdoin College: of a heart attack; in Portland, Me. Raised on a Maine saltwater farm, Coffin began writing poetry while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, soon became a popular favorite for his nostalgic ballads of Maine life and Maine people. An ardent believer in poetry as a popular art, he read his works to audiences all over the U.S., inveighed against...
Both parties have their own personalized stationery and organizations. The letter-heads are recognizable in a glance, but it takes an entire day to plow through the hierarchy of offices. The Democratic headquarters, for example, is listed on Bowdoin Street, which as it turned out, is a tricky way of saying nothing. At their central office a circling staircase led to a series of small signs promising political information just ahead. Inside the room numerous papers were cluttered about two prim ladies who were methodically dampening stamps...
...winning side, the varsity's favorite schedule scape-goats have been the little three Maine colleges (Bates, Bowdoin and Maine.) These together have provided the Crimson with 51 victories without a loss. Williams, who has never beaten the University in 30 tries, has been another losing favorite, scoring a total of 24 points in all of ils matches with the Crimson...
John H. Updike '54 of Cambridge, Mass., was awarded the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for study at a university in the British Commonwealth. He was president of the Lampoon and won the second Bowdoin Prize in English composition, as well as the Dana Reed Prize for the best writing in an undergraduate publication...
Robert C. Lasch '54 has been awarded the top undergraduate prize of $500 in the 1954 Bowdoin Essay Contest, for his dissertation on "The Strenuous Life: Roosevelt, Beveridge and Lodge." He is one of the six Bowdoin prize winners for the current academic year, including three undergraduates and three graduate students...