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...yard freestyle relay--Won by Harvard; Crosby, Coburn, Lagarene, Burnham...
Coachi Ulen's seconds string relay team, composed of Crosby, Coburn, Lagerene, and Burnham, downed the best that Brown could offer in the closing event...
...Well, Well, Phil Small." Burnham (pop. 643) is little more than a crossroads. Rain was pouring down when Small alighted from the bus in the dawn and dragged his bag over to the general store. Old Frank Cunningham, town jack-of-all-trades, was standing there. Said Cunningham: "Well, well, it's Phil Small." In Cunningham's battered coupe, Phil Small drove off cross-country through the rain...
...sooner did the U.S. press publish the design than a storm of protests blew in on the Navy Department. Like Designer Burnham, the protesters were all Protestants. The state of Washington's Council of Churches found the design "sacrilegious ... an utter mockery of the sacredness of worship. . . . Weapons of war might as well be placed on the altar or pulpit as to allow this horrible creation ... to desecrate the sanctuary of worship." The influential Christian Century found it "rather shocking to see that symbol of gentleness and grace" holding a warship, but was thankful that "the figure of Christ...
...particularly appropriate. Jesuit Father John LaFarge (son of famed Painter John LaFarge) called the window "unobjectionable." "It does not mean," he added, "that the Blessed Mother is taking a partisan stand, but that she feels a maternal concern for our men in service." Last week the Navy ordered Designer Burnham to remove the warship from his design, substitute the Infant Jesus...