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Ever since Hugh Hyde and Bunks Burditt were publicly labelled "unofficial bridge champions of the College" snide remarks have been going about as to the validity of their claim. To silence this sub rosa sabotage the pair have announced that they would be glad, very glad in fact, to meet all comers before their Sunday night match...
George M. Burditt '44 of Winthrop House and La Grange, Illinois, was elected president of the Student Council, and Hugh Hyde '44 of 59 Plympton Street and New York City was chosen secretary at the Council's meeting Monday evening. John P. Kennedy, Jr. '44 of Eliot House and Charlotte, North Carolina, was re-elected to the post of treasurer to which he was named last month...
Last night Burditt, speaking for the new executives, stated, "We hope that the Council will be able to deal successfully with the problems and responsibilities arising from Harvard's wartime conditions, and that we will be able to live up to the standards of past Councils...
Lieutenant (jg) Oswald Jacoby, one of the "Four Horsemen" of bridge, and Lieutenant (jg) Howard M. Menzel, former Harvard English professor, will play their trumps against George "Bunks" Burditt '44, and Hugh Hyde '44, basketball and Student Council teammates. The purpose of the informal battle is to stimulate friendship between undergraduates and the Naval trainees in the Yard...
...Hyde and Burditt, otherwise known as the Gold Dust twins, are unofficial bridge champions of the College, and after their joust with the masters Sunday, they will be ready for all student challengers to their informal title...