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...mammoth "Mark II" computator, which technicians have been testing for the past year, will be shipped to the Dahlgren Proving Ground in Virginia within a month. The machine has, resided in Gordon McKay engineering lab since construction began...
Some 3,000 midshipmen will march from their grey stone barracks at Annapolis next week to hear handsome, ur bane Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch open the ceremonies celebrating the U.S. Naval Academy's 100th year. There will be light moments, a "hop" in Dahlgren Hall. But essentially it will be an occasion for prayer ful thought both in the Chapel and the Administration Building next door...
...reason: the Academy's lock-step method of teaching. Daily, across the Yard, in & out of Luce, Dahlgren, Isherwood, Maury Halls, squads of midshipmen march to get their marks, file into class, sit down, open books, stand up, recite, sit down, stand up, march to the next class. The question (said Annapolis' critics on the inside) is not what they know but what they momentarily remember...
...hottest front was Annapolis' Dahlgren Hall, where West Point's once-beaten basketball team (upset by Pennsylvania) had it out with once-beaten Navy (who lost only to Bainbridge Naval Training Station). Both teams suffered first-half jitters; both succeeded with the same basic tactics-keep the No. 1 scorers, Army's flashy Dale Hall and Navy's nimble Adrian Back, out of range...
...Jimmy Wasdell from the Pirates, Babe Dahlgren from the Dodgers. Dahlgren is now leading both leagues with a batting average of .351 ; Wasdell is hitting around .300. But the clinching stroke that has given the Phillies a winning combination was trading Outfielders Earl Naylor and Danny Litwhiler (Litwhiler was considered their best outfielder) for three Cardinal castoffs: Coaker Triplett, Buster Adams and Dain Clay (later swapped for Cincinnati Shortstop Charlie Brewster...