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Club proponent Andrew C Deardorff '84, one of 63 Harvard students currently enrolled in MIT's ROTC division, reaffirmed yesterday that the club was not intended as a recruiting organization. Rather, he said, official College recognition would allow ROTC and other students to use Harvard's name and request official meeting space for social events, films and other activities...
Because the club was "inspired by ROTC cadets at Harvard," Deardorff said, to get approval he would be willing to compromise on the name of the organization, as long as it contains the acronym 'ROTC...
Around a purple-covered table in the New York Athletic Club gathered last fortnight as improbable a collection of international oddities as Hollywood ever cinematically juxtaposed in a European hotel or an ocean liner. Their names were Soussa, Ankrom, Tiedtke, Lee, Deardorff, Lagache, Robyns and Zaman. They were, respectively, an Egyptian painter, Detroit barber, German hotel clerk, U. S. swimming champion, St. Louis secretary, Parisian stockbroker, Amsterdam diamond merchant and one-eyed Antwerp insurance salesman. Few of them spoke English. The difference in tongues did not confuse them in the least. They had met, not to talk, but to play...
Last week it became apparent that Edward Lancaster Lee understood this language better than his colleagues. After an eight-day round robin in which each man played the seven others, Deardorff had been beaten twice and Edmond Soussa, sad-eyed son of a Cairo cigaret tycoon, three times, while Lagache, the defending champion, had lost more games than he had won. Lee not only won all seven of his games but, in the last, against Lagache, made the high run of the tournament-10 caroms...