Word: brought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years it has not been unusual for the First Marshal to be elected with only a fifth of the votes in his Class. However, in the Class of 1959, the First Marshal was thought "unrepresentative" by several hundred of his classmates. Ironically enough, the Class of 1959 was brought to unified Class action because of its extreme diversity...
...latter part of the year, Lowell's plan of the Society of Fellows was brought into being through his gift. Three of the first five Junior Fellows appointed that Spring are now distinguished members of the Harvard Faculty: Professors Birkhoff, Quine, and Skinner. President Church received its more recently position the next year, calling for more fellowships for distinguished scholars. The College-wide concern for scholarship could be seen in the long discussion of "snap" courses, the demand for longer library hours, and more attention to the tutorial system...
...batters' eyes like a butterfly, then breaks sharply and unpredictably. One night last week his knuckler broke all over the place, kept the bug-eyed New York Yankees flailing futilely. For Wilhelm it was a four-hit shutout, his seventh victory of the year without a loss, and brought his earned-run average down to 1.12-best in the major leagues. At 35, well-built (6 ft., 197 Ibs.) Hoyt Wilhelm is better than he has ever been before-and especially deadly against the Yankees. Since he went over to the American League in 1957, Wilhelm has allowed...
...Business. Father of the Japanese industry is Masaru Ibuka. 51, a prewar movie sound technician who in 1948 set up what is now the Sony Corp. to make tape recorders and other sound equipment. Hearing of the development of transistors at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Ibuka produced laboratory samples, brought them to the U.S. to arrange the first Japanese transistor-patent licensing agreement. While many U.S. electronics men concentrated on industrial and military uses of transistors. Ibuka went after the consumer market, started the Japanese fad for miniature radios, eventually attracted some 100 competitors into the field...
Died. Emory D. Alvord, 73, Utah-born Congregational missionary who brought "the Gospel of the Plow" to Southern Rhodesia, revolutionized agricultural methods in central Africa; of a heart attack; in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia...