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Charles Knowles' Psalm Book deserves special commendation since it was executed in its entirety by a boy of eighteen. Knowles was a senior at the Putney School, Vermont, when he learned that he had only a year to live. In the time remaining to him, he illustrated and printed ten...
In the early days of World War II, he had command of the Air Group on the aircraft carrier Saratoga, won a Distinguished Flying Cross for leading the first U.S. carrier strike of the war. A couple of weeks later he got a Navy Cross when his planes sank some...
One former manager has distinguished himself militarily. He is Clifton F. Von Kann '37, former baseball manager, who is a Brigadier General, the Director of Army Aviation, and a former Assistant Chief of Staff. He has won many decorations, including: Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Commendation Ribbon with...
Librarians are traditionally a stodgy lot. The faculty committee on Libraries, however, deserves commendation for breaking tradition and imposing a three-hour limit on the circulation of Lamont closed research books. Come Reading Period, the glorious era of hidden volumes and missing books may be ended. Desks will no longer...
Key to Success. In Paris, after winning a special commendation from the police chief for his speed in locating stolen cars, a gendarme let out the secret: he had stolen them himself.