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...South Coventry, Conn. last week, a crowd of 2,000 gathered in the meadows and lawns of an old homestead to honor Nathan Hale, the young patriot-spy of the American Revolution on the 200th anniversary of his birth. In a large circus tent near the old Hale house, greetings from President Eisenhower were read, and Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff praised Hale's bravery and sacrifice. Local churchwomen, dressed in the costumes of the Revolution, handed out coffee and cake, and the 20-piece Fife and Drum Corps from Stony Creek, in sleeveless red jackets, black leggings...
Hale and a friend, Sergeant Stephen Hempstead, went to Norwalk, Conn. "Capt. Hale had changed his uniform for a plain suit of citizen's brown clothes," the sergeant recalled later, "with a round broad-brimmed hat; assuming the character of a Dutch schoolmaster." Before they parted company, Hale left all his valuables and papers, except for his Yale diploma (which he needed to establish his disguise) with the sergeant. Then a friendly sea captain ferried him across Long Island Sound to Huntington, and left...
Died. Phillips Wyman, 60, magazine circulation expert, publisher of Redbook and Blue Book magazines and a director of the McCall Corp.; of a heart ailment; in Redding, Conn...
Thirty-six members of the varsity, junior varsity, and freshman crews set up camp at Red Top yesterday in preparation for their June 17 meeting with the Yale heavies on the Thames River at New London, Conn...
Frits Ostherr '57 of Dunster House and North Andover, Mass., heads a list of four newly-appointed crew managers for next year. Ostherr will succeed Joe Harrison '56 as varsity heavy manager a year from this spring. Ralph A. Powers, Jr. '57 of Lowell House and New London, Conn., will follow William H. Pear, II '56 as varsity lightweight manager for the season...